China’s NetEase has strengthened its position abroad. A number of her mobile titles entered the top 100 most profitable in Japan over the past month.

China’s two largest gaming companies are predicting a great year. As well as the entire local digital games market. Its turnover may reach $33 billion by the end of the year.

Chinese gamers defend the Steam version of Total War: Three Kingdoms in front of its local publisher — NetEase. Fearing censorship, players write hundreds of negative reviews on the Total War franchise.

An esports park will be built in Shanghai, including a stadium for tournaments. NetEase will invest $725 million dollars in the project.

NetEase has its own studio in Montreal. Its opening will serve the global ambitions of the Chinese company.

The Chinese publisher NetEase has entered into a partnership with Pokémon and Marvel. Now the first mobile Pokemon game will appear in China, as well as new titles with Marvel comics characters.

“Battle Royale” as a genre is one of the three pillars of Chinese financial well—being NetEase. And the company is doing its best to strengthen its position within this niche. The novelty of Cyber Hunter is proof of that.

It’s NetEase’s turn to report for the final quarter of 2018 and for the whole year. The Chinese media company has many successes.

We are talking about a minority package.

The company will limit the time and duration of the gaming session for all underage users. The innovation will affect 15 leading NetEase projects and will operate exclusively in China.

The story of the licensing freeze has finally come to a successful end for Tencent c NetEase. For the first time since last March, Chinese giants have received approval for the release of projects in China.

In the Middle Kingdom, 93 more games were allowed to be published. This is the third selection of approved projects since December. However, there are still no projects of the two leading gaming companies in the country “on the lists”.

Again without Tencent and NetEase.

Problems in China forced Tencent and NetEase to strengthen their presence in the international market. Thanks to this, their total revenue from mobile games in foreign markets jumped by an astronomical 382% this year.

The Chinese market is becoming more and more interesting for developers and publishers of mobile games every year. However, the question of how to get to it correctly is still relevant. Is adding Chinese to the game enough? How big are the cultural differences? Which stores makes sense to work with? Is a local representative really necessary? The speakers answered these and other questions during the round table.

Sensor Tower has compiled lists of the most downloaded and profitable games in the App Store and Google Play for the second quarter of 2018. PUBG Mobile has lost the lead in downloads to the hyper-casual arcade Helix Jump.

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 Internet company NetEase has announced that it is developing a dramatic web series, the basis for which will be the multiplayer game Knives Out – a mobile clone of PUBG.

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.