On Monday evening SIG analyst Zhao Chunming downgraded Tencent from positive to neutral over concerns about its valuation in the face of a slowdown in the Chinese online game market. 48% of Tencent’s revenue comes from online gaming, and in the last several weeks Perfect World, Shanda Games, Giant Interactive and Netease have all issued [...]
The Machinima film ”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction” won top prize at the 2010 Tudou Festival, as Tudou co-founder Marc van der Chijs describes on his blog. Congratulations to 性感玉米 SexyCorn ( @CorndogCN on twitter) and his team for making such a good and important film. You can see it on Tudou below, or watch an English subtitled version [...]
A friend is an investigative reporter for a leading business magazine in China. His beat is mining, which takes him frequently to Shanxi, one of China’s leading coal producing provinces. I took him drinking earlier this week and he told me a crazy story, one that his editor said would never get past the censors. [...]
Niko Partners, run by a good friend, has released its latest survey of the China Game Market. Per the release: Niko Partners, the leading market intelligence firm on China’s video game industry, today announced preliminary results from its upcoming Annual Review & Five-Year Forecast on China’s video game industry, citing $3.57 billion in revenue from [...]
Century Weekly, Hu Shuli’s new magazine, has a great article on the travails in China of Netease and World of Warcraft. It was the cover story of the last issue, and the magazine has just posted the official English translation on the web site. It is a must read if you are interested in gaming [...]
Google’s recent moves in China have captured global attention about censorship and Internet controls in China, eliciting protests from inside and outside China. But there is a much more entertaining protest about China’s web controls circulating on the Internet–”网瘾战争 War of Internet Addiction”. It is an hour long video, “shot” almost entirely with in-game video [...]
If the latest reports in the Chinese press are accurate, China’s General Administration for Press and Publications (GAPP) has told Netease ($NTES) that it has until January 17th to stop charging for World of Warcraft, otherwise it will impose a massive fine and shut off its Internet access. This has not been confirmed, nor have [...]
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