Tomorrow Valve will start testing the official version of Steam for China. However, local users expressed their dissatisfaction with what was happening. They fear that they will soon be deprived of the opportunity to play thousands of games due to the unavailability of the international version of the store.What is the dissatisfaction of gamers?

Apple continued large-scale blocking in the Chinese App Store. Rumors about this appeared at the beginning of last December, and by the end of the month 48 thousand games had disappeared from the store at once.

A year and a half ago, horror Devotion was at the center of a scandal in China, after which the game was removed from Steam. Yesterday, the developer studio Red Candle Games announced the re—release of the title, but already in the GOG store CD Projekt. It was only a few hours after the announcement that the Poles decided not to release Devotion. Perhaps it’s the successful Chinese sales of Cyberpunk 2077, which the company…

Although Cyberpunk 2077 has not officially launched in China yet, the game has already proved to be in great demand among gamers in China. For example, on the opening day alone, the CD Projekt RED title was broadcast by 7.5 thousand Chinese streamers at once, and more than 19 million people watched their broadcasts.

Until recently, there was no unified age rating system in China. Now the country’s authorities have obliged game publishers to label their products. The practice is designed, among other things, to combat gambling addiction.Its introduction was announced by analyst Daniel Ahmad.

The film version of the game Monster Hunter: World was removed from rental in China because of a joke that many citizens of the country found offensive and racist. As a result, Chinese users began massively underestimating the game, and Capcom promised to investigate.What offended the Chinese in the film?

This summer, Apple began removing games from the Chinese App Store that did not have permission to be published in this country. But it seems that by the end of the year the company will remove a number of applications from the store.

The analytical company GameRefinery has published a report on the main news and changes that have occurred in major mobile projects in October. The data relate to the markets of the USA, China and Japan.US Market

Two months after the launch, Genshin Impact still holds the title of the best-selling mobile game in the world, not counting Honor of Kings. During this time, she collected $393 million only in the App Store and Google Play.

The Indian government continues to ban mobile applications created by developers from China. This time, AliExpress, Alipay and about forty other projects fell under the knife. There are also games on the Indian blacklist.

Now the Chinese gaming industry is dominated by Tencent and NetEase. However, now ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched its own store and plans to compete with them by independently developing and releasing projects.Own store and publishing house

China’s gaming industry remains one of the fastest growing in the world. The turnover of the local video game market in the third quarter exceeded $10 billion, and more than half of this amount fell on mobile.Note: information about the state of the market was published by the South China Morning Post, and the State Association of Audio-video and Digital Publishing was engaged in compiling the report.

While the developers of Among Us are in no hurry to localize the game into Chinese, its clone called Werewolf Among Us has become the most downloaded mobile title in the country. The project completely copied the mechanics of the original, changing only the setting.Screenshot from Werewolf Among Us

This year, the Chinese mobile title Honor of Kings celebrates its fifth anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, Tencent shared a new achievement of the project — the DAU of the game has passed the milestone of 100 million.

Genshin Impact has become one of the largest launches in the history of mobile games. In its first month, the title raised $245 million. This is more than it was at the start of Fortnite, Lineage 2: Revolution and Fire Emblem Heroes.

Valve may be preparing to merge the Chinese and global versions of Steam. If this happens, many developers will no longer be able to sell games in China without the approval of the local government (now only dozens of foreign titles are licensed per year).Prerequisites for the merger and possible consequences

Party Animals is a new competitive game, the demo version of which has already become a hit on Steam. Even before the official release of the online project, it exceeded 100 thousand people, which became a record for a game developed in China.The Party Animals demo was available for free on Steam from October 4 to October 13.

The US government is still unable to make progress in blocking WeChat. The magistrate’s court ruled that the actions of the authorities would be a direct violation of freedom of speech, and therefore the messenger will continue to work in the United States.Judge Laurel Beeler responded to the Trump administration’s motion to lift the preliminary ban on blocking WeChat.

Genshin Impact from the company miHoYo has already earned over $ 100 million largely due to the use of gacha mechanics. The founders of the studio told how they began to focus on anime gamers and why in—game purchases in their projects are “payment for love”.Background and philosophy of miHoYo