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Yearly Archives: 2015

Tencent to invest $126m into Glu Mobile

Tencent plans to spend 126 million US dollars to buy 14.6% of Glu’s shares, according to Reuters. Tencent will pay $6 per share for its...

MIIT: to absorb private capital to lower network fees

After Premier Li complained about high fees for mobile network in China, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT)’s director of telecommunications Wen Ku...

China Mobile bogged down in complaints against illegal charging of mobile games

“Secret charging” and “misguided payment” of mobile games adopting short message billing (SMS billing) of China Mobile (the largest carrier in China) have sparked...

Monument Valley fails to be re-developed by iDreamSky

As the agent of Monument Valley in China, iDreamSky vowed to “re-develop” this game in February, to make it more "suitable for Chinese Android...

Premier Li urges carriers to lower mobile data price

At a conference on “economic situations” on April 14th, Premier Li surprisingly complained about high fees of mobile data traffic (70 RMB for 1G)...

Gameloft closes its Shenzhen branch when staff go out for dinner

Gameloft’s recent actions in closing its Shenzhen branch were as absurd as a black comedy. According to multiple sources of information, Gameloft announced shutdown...

A female Chinese WOW player and her broken reality

When Hye (何永惠) narrated her experience of deserting her husband and son for playing World of Warcraft on Zhihu (Chinese Quora), she didn’t expect...

ChinaJoy: less porn this year

ChinaJoy’s sponsor Hanwei declared today that it will entrust model company New Silk Road to “monitor” show girls and related agent companies, in response...

Tencent goes crazy with “pan-entertainment” strategy

With billions RMB of game revenues in pockets and hundreds of millions gamers in hands, Tencent is now doing something bigger. On its “UP 2015”...

Chukong: When an opportunist turns into an idealist

Chukong’s founder and CEO Chen Haozhi recently likened the company’s frustration in Wall Street (over USD 1.3b of valuation expected while 540m evaluated in...

Rumor: Chengdu incubator Gameworks collapses

It was rumored yesterday that Chengdu’s mobile game incubator Gameworks was being closed, due to burning through of its 200 million yuan and unsuccessful...

The most famous nobody in Chinese mobile game industry: Raven

It’s hard to think of any guy like Raven, but he does look familiar to me, maybe because he is just the same as...

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