Recently, Savvy Games Group—a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund—has been closely observing the Chinese gaming market. In an interview with the Financial Times, its CEO Brian Ward explained that the tense political relations between China and the USA have created a good opportunity for Savvy Games Group to strike a deal with local developers.

The analytical company Niko Partners forecasts that the year 2025 will be extremely successful for the Chinese gaming market. According to their calculations, residents of China will spend $50.7 billion on games over the year — $1.5 billion more than in 2024.

On August 19, 2025, Riot Games and Tencent released the mobile version of Valorant in China. According to Bloomberg, citing data from the Appfigures service, the game’s launch was successful.

Ilya Ulyanov, the Director of Business Development at RuStore, discussed the increase in Chinese advertising expenses in a conversation with the newspaper “Kommersant.”

Another game by MY.GAMES is set to launch in China. The company announced that the local regulator has issued a license to release the mobile game Rush Royale in the country.

The Chinese regulator has issued a new batch of licenses for game publishing in the Middle Kingdom. This time, the list of approved projects includes nine games from foreign developers.

In February 2025, Chinese developers began reporting issues accessing Unity 6. It was recently revealed that the company behind the engine had indeed withdrawn it from sale in China.

It seems that the Chinese authorities do not intend to freeze the issuance of licenses for publishing games from American companies in the country in response to the tariff increase in the US. However, sales of such games in China could still suffer due to a boycott by Chinese citizens offended by the trade war.

On April 2nd, Donald Trump announced an increase in tariffs and the introduction of new duties on most of the US partners. The new wave of the trade war inevitably impacted gaming company stocks worldwide, especially in the Asian region. Our material discusses the stock market reaction, which can currently be described as cautious panic.

At the end of 2024, the market value of the Chinese company miHoYo reached $24.2 billion, according to data from the Hurun Research Institute. This valuation allowed the creators of Genshin Impact to secure the 48th place in the annual ranking of the most valuable companies in China.

Chinese gamers have sharply reacted to the upcoming expansion for Hearts of Iron IV titled Graveyard of Empires. They’ve decided to take out their dissatisfaction on Paradox Interactive’s games in Steam, resulting in a flood of negative reviews.

China’s antitrust regulator is preparing an investigation into Apple, Bloomberg reports, citing sources familiar with the situation. The potential subject of the investigation is the App Store’s policies.

The China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association (CADPA) has updated the standards for game advertising in the country. One of the new provisions aims to combat misleading ads targeting players.

On Tuesday, December 24, the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) of China issued the last batch of game publication licenses for the year in the country. As a result, the total number of games approved by the regulator for 2024 amounted to 1,416.

The Chinese mini-game market is on the rise. According to estimates by the analytics company DataEye, by the end of 2024, its volume will exceed 50 billion yuan ($6.86 billion).

The China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association released its annual report on the state of the local gaming market for the year 2024.

Ju Heng, an associate professor at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Business School, investigated the App Store’s revenue in China. The figures were astronomical.

The National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) of China has released a list of 128 games approved for launch in October. Among them are over 100 domestic projects and 15 titles from foreign developers.

The Game Publishing Committee of the China Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association released a report on the state of the local gaming market for the third quarter of 2024. The report highlights a historic peak in revenues and steady industry growth, largely attributed to the successful launch of Black Myth: Wukong in the international market.