Glu is losing ground in the US and Europe, but gaining support in China.

The Chinese company Chukong Technologies received $50 million of investments from the venture fund New Horizon Capital. The money will be spent on creating their own publishing brand, a development department and a department dealing with engines, as reported by GamesIndustry.

Chinese studio Rekoo has announced that it is opening a European office in east London on the territory of a special British technopark Tech City. This is reported by Pocketgamer. Rekoo is the first Chinese company that is going to open a representative office in the park.

Analysts at Frank N. Magid Associates compared the penetration of games in the US and Chinese markets. As it turned out, in China this parameter reached a whopping 84%, while in America it was only 69%.

One of the largest Chinese publishers of MMO games yesterday announced the beginning of its expansion into the mobile market.

The revenue of the Chinese mobile games market by the end of this year will amount to $ 1.2 billion, representatives of Niko Partners assure in their latest research. 

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, today we are publishing the third part of his story on App2Top.

Downloads from the MIUI app store, embedded in Xiaomi‘s Android phone firmware, reached a billion a year after launch. According to Xiaomi, its store is among the five largest of the 200 available in China.

Qihoo 360, which owns one of China’s largest Android app stores, earned almost $152 million in the second quarter.

At the end of July, Unity technical evangelist Oleg Pridyuk at habrahabr.ru He opened a series of publications about the mobile games market in China. With Oleg’s permission, we publish his materials on App2Top.

Chinese messenger WeChat enters the gaming market this August after Kakao and LINE.

A Chinese mobile company has announced that it has started earning $12 million a month. Its sales for the current year may amount to a solid $ 150 million.

We continue to publish the most interesting messages that come in connection with the ChinaJoy 2013 conference in Shanghai. This time there are new data on the size of the Chinese mobile games market for the first half of 2013.

China is currently the leader in the number of active iOS and Android devices in the world. Its growth rates are still at a very high level. In this regard, as well as with the conference, China Joy Flurry shared data on the mobile market of China.

At the ChinaJoy conference, the executive director of Shanda Games Xiangdong Zhang said that the turnover of the Chinese mobile games market at the moment is about $160 million per quarter.

The postponement of a number of game releases cost the largest Chinese social network losses of $29 million, as well as sales, 10% less than expected.

Yesterday, in connection with the deal between Baidu and Netdragon Websoft, we contacted Evgeny Kosolapov, Executive director of i-Free Asia, and asked him about the situation in the Chinese market. 

Everyone has been talking about China for a year now. There is nothing to be surprised about. This is a huge market in its potential, which is difficult to enter due to its severe fragmentation. But it is necessary to go out.

The number of international subscribers of the Chinese “conversational” WeChat application has reached 70 million. About the present and future of the platform – in our material.