In the near future, the Chinese regulator will again issue licenses to online games. He hasn’t done it in four months. Against the background of such news, the shares of local giants Tencent and NetEase increased in price.

NetEase’s gaming revenue for the third quarter (ended September 30) was $2.5 billion. This is a record figure for a Chinese company. Not the least role in this was played by the successful launches of Naraka: Bladepoint and Harry Potter: Magic Awakened.Naraka: Bladepoint

Against the background of stricter laws regarding video games, more than 200 companies in China have pledged to independently regulate this area and cooperate with the authorities. They will take a number of measures to combat gambling addiction among teenagers — including using a facial recognition system.According to Reuters, the statement of the Chinese gaming association CGIGC was signed by a total of 213 companies.

On September 9, NetEase published Harry Potter: Magic Awakened in China, a mobile card game with an original combat system. For the whole first week, it holds the first place at the box office in the local App Store.

Toshihiro Nagoshi, creator of the Yakuza series, is close to leaving SEGA after 32 years at the company. According to media reports, the Japanese game designer’s next job will be NetEase. Thus, the Chinese giant wants to impose competition on Tencent in the Japanese console market.Toshihiro Nagoshi, photo: Jin Wang

Chinese authorities continue to look for new ways to regulate online business and video games. In just a day, the shares of local giants like Tencent and NetEase have sharply lost in price. This is due to an article in a state newspaper that equated games with drugs and called for stricter control measures of the industry.

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

Leslie Benzies, who previously served as president of Rockstar North, has attracted investments of $42 million to develop a new game Everywhere. One of the investors was the Chinese giant NetEase.The funds will be received by the Benzis studio Build a Rocket Boy.

The Chinese company ByteDance is mainly engaged in social networks (TikTok, Douyin, Helo). But back in January, she began to strengthen her position in the gaming industry. Now ByteDance continues to follow the set course. Recently, the company has opened almost a thousand vacancies for its gaming division.

On August 13, the servers of the new Eve Echoes game officially open. This is a mobile reinterpretation of the MMO centenarian Eve Online by the Icelandic CCP. Its mobile version was developed by the Chinese NetEase. We talked with the producer of the novelty about its development and differences from the original.

The Chinese giant NetEase has opened a branch in Japan. The staff of the new studio will be engaged in the games of the new generation.

China’s NetEase earns more from games than Activision Blizzard and EA. Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad drew attention to this.

A new digital game store will be launched in China. Its owner NetEase plans to sell foreign games to Chinese consumers.

The Asian video game market will continue to grow this year. Its turnover may reach $65 billion.

Chinese politics is back in play. NetEase cut an Arsenal football player from a sports title — he criticized the country for creating concentration camps for Uighurs, the national Muslim minority.

NetEase has applied artificial intelligence to create realistic game avatars. And now MMORPG Justice users can transfer their faces to the game.

NetEase followed Tencent into the Chinese streaming services market. The company has launched an open beta test of the NetEase Cloud Games platform.

The expansion of Chinese publishers into the Western market continues. NetEase has become one of the major shareholders of Bossa Studios, the publisher of Surgeon Simulator. The deal could amount to $30 million.

Blizzard and NetEase won a plagiarism case by 4399 Network. The latter is a Chinese publisher who released MOBA Heroes of Warfare.