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Originally posted on Forbes.com: Several publicly traded Chinese PC online game companies have broken from their stance of focusing only

Originally posted on Forbes.com: In my 12 years of analysis on the games industry in China as managing partner of

Alibaba to IPO in US Watch for this IPO – it will be very big, and very important. Alibaba is

Fun Box Console ZTE, China’s 2nd biggest maker of phone-network equipment, formed a JV with Chinese online game operator The9

Chinese Games vs. Japanese Games Yi Ren, CEO of DeNA China, was interviewed by Gamelook and talked about his understanding

The Shanghai FTZ We eagerly await more detail regarding the regulations governing consoles in the China (Shanghai) Free Trade Pilot

The Flappy Bird Saga The Flappy Bird saga has been all over the game industry the past few weeks –

Tencent vs. Alibaba in the New Year Tencent and Alibaba extend their rivalry in the revelry of the Chinese New

Games Usage Expected to Rise During Lunar New Year Period With the Chinese Lunar New Year coming soon (January 31st

TENCENT RELEASES MOBILE PLATFORM Tencent recently announced it will combine previously separate mobile app publishing platforms into one unified platform

China’s Rekoo started as a “widgets” company, moved into SNS games development, and now will branch into licensing, marketing, and

Tencent launched NCSoft’s Blade & Soul (MMORPG) November 28, 2013 in China. Last week, Tencent announced it reached 1.5 million

Blade & Soul, an NC Soft game operated by Tencent in China, reported some very high user figures such as

Niko has stated that we are in “wait and see” mode regarding the newly lifted ban of consoles in China,

Alibaba is setting up its mobile games platform and Alibaba Digital Entertainment to compete head to head with Tencent. Tencent