The number of monthly active Steam users has reached 90 million. Valve representatives told about this at the Melbourne Games Week conference.

On Steam, the leader in the number of sales over the past week was a game that is focused exclusively on the Chinese audience and has no English localization.

Another bad news from China. Twitch no longer works in China: the website is unavailable, the app in the regional App Store is also unavailable.

They continue to invest in the gaming blockchain. The Beijing startup Cocos-BCX, which creates a blockchain platform for game developers, announced the attraction of a large tranche. $40 million was invested in the startup.

Bad news from China. The stop of video game licensing, which began in March, is being delayed. There is a high probability that the Chinese authorities will not allow the publication of any new games in the country for the next six months.

The number of mobile gamers in China is comparable to the combined population of the United States and Japan. 459 million people play on smartphones and tablets in China, and the total population of the USA and Japan is 455 million citizens.

The Celestial Empire is restless again. Chinese gaming colossus Tencent has announced a new registration and identification system in Honor of Kings (aka Arena of War), the highest-grossing mobile game in the world. The company will register players by their real name, and then check their age and identity against the police database.

The situation around the games in China is escalating. The Ministry of Education of China has recommended limiting the number of online games that receive approval to launch. The official reason is the fight against myopia.

Tim Cook’s company listens to China’s state media. After the media of China this month accused Apple that it was in no hurry to remove content banned in the region from the app store, at least 4,000 apps disappeared from the App Store.

Due to the fact that the Chinese government suspended the issuance of licenses for the release of new games in the country, the world’s largest game publisher began to have problems. Tencent reported a 2% drop in net income for the second quarter of 2018 compared to the same period last year.

The Chinese gaming market is under attack. Due to administrative changes, the region was left without new games. The administration, which is responsible for issuing licenses for publishing games, has not issued them since the end of March.

According to Newzoo, the Chinese gaming market has reached a turnover of $37.9 billion. This year, Chinese gamers will spend $10.4 billion more than last year.

How to enter the gaming market of China? What kind of games are popular on it? Is it worth entering the Chinese market on your own? These and many other issues will be discussed at White Nights St. Petersburg 2018 as part of a separate round table. We suggest coming up with questions for him. The authors of the top two will receive a premium ticket.

The developers of the War Robots mobile action game from Pixonic are preparing to launch their game on the iDreamSky platform, one of the largest Chinese publishers.

Valve has announced cooperation with the Chinese company Perfect World in the framework of creating a version of the Steam store specifically for Chinese users.

Chinese developer and publisher NetEase has invested $100 million in Bungie Studio. The companies have entered into a partnership in which they will work together on “new directions,” Bungie reported.

The Chinese developer and publisher Netease increased operating expenses by 75% in the 1st quarter of fiscal year 2018. The increased expenses of the company are associated with the development and publication of new games for the PC platform, for which Netease has big plans.

In the next 5 years, the Chinese mobile games market will maintain and strengthen its global leadership. According to the analytical company Niko Partners, by 2022 the number of gamers in China will exceed 1 billion people, and mobile games will generate more than half of all gaming revenue.

In 2018, Russian users will download mobile games over 2 billion times. According to the number of game downloads on mobile, Russia will take the 5th place in the world. This is stated in the forecast of the analytical company App Annie.