GameLook Weekly Review
There was a lot of news about Tencent last week. Tencent’s VP once said that Tencent would step into an investment period. In the first half of this year, it put much money in games, group shopping, online traveling and movies & TV. Each investment was over US$10 million. Besides, it was quite a shock to know that Tencent invested Kingsoft.
Tencent’s open platform strategy is worth our attention, but Tencent’s investment partners deviate from its open strategy. It seems that strategic cooperation should be built based on a deeper sharing of interest.
Tencent began to introduce social games into Qzone last week. We have got an understanding of the current Tencent platform that hostile competition and mutual reports among developers are frequently seen. The competition is really fierce for developers to bring their games into Qzone successfully.
Chinese social game companies successively launched new games on the overseas social sites last week, most of which had been released in China. Except some large listed companies, other companies have licensed overseas publishers to operate their social games.
As GameLook published news about Chinese social games and disclosed some info about controversial shareholder structures and intellectual property-related issues, which could hardly be reported objectively by Chinese media, many game companies asked GameLook to delete relevant info.
Thunder’s upcoming IPO is quite notable. Thunder has a large number of users, but it hasn’t fully developed its game business. Now it is throwing itself into game business actively.
MMOGame
Internet Market for Children Needs Strict Supervision
Tabletop Game Legend of Immortal to Enter Market on July 9th
Tencent Acquires 15.68 % of Kingsoft in Strategic Investment
The9 To Be Operator of PlanetSide 2 in China
Shanda will hold 2011ALLSTAR during Chinajoy: nine new online games debut
The Thunder will spend $20 million to purchase operating license of games
Kingsoft Appoints Leijun as Chairman
NetEase launched iTownSDK game development competition: total prize money reached 1 million Yuan
NetEase announced the price of StarCraft II monthly card will cut 50% in July
NetDragon Revamps Its Dungeon Keeper Title Today
The9 get the right agent of 2D casual game Adventures in Wonderland
The Thunder will be sale 10 million dollars stock to SOHU
The Giant announced the PCU of Journey is reached 1.26 million
The Transformers Online is expected to begins its first closed beta test in early August
Giant first give its sole agency of MMORPG to other Chinese game company
Changyou announced Duke of Mount Deer will opening open beta test on July 22.
NetDragon Launching Turkish Version of Conquer Online
SocialGame
[IMPORTANT NOTE]: The preparations for app access to Qzone
Perfect World Entertainment’s Facebook Game Perfect Getaway to Enhance Promotion
Rekoo has released a new social game on Mixi
Tencent Pengyou.com change its Chinese name to “PengYou”
The comparison between Zynga and EA
Dream² Little Ninja launched in Facebook by GamBunny
MobileGame
CyberAgent acquired 25% of mobile game maker EpicForce
MocaWorld CEO Discloses Tencent Occupies 85% of the Wireless Internet Market
Angry Birds will launch on China Mobile Market
China Mobile MM app store hits 360 million downloads
Alibaba Cloud Computing is working on the development of a new mobile operating system
Sinofriends will invest 200 million Yuan in MiYou in the next three years.
Tencent first exclusive agent iOS game The Three Kingdom TD
WebGame
Linekong Plans to Launch Four Web Games
Changyou’s DDTank to End Service on Tianya.com and 9You
Dream² Little Ninja launched in Facebook by GamBunny
ConsoleGame
Eedoo plans to launch its iSec console in Q4
Research
Analysys: 2011China web game market size will be over 5 billion Yuan
Nielsen: Games Most Popular Mobile App Category in US
Flurry:Free-to-play Revenue Overtakes Premium Revenue in the App Store
Gartner:Worldwide Video Game Spending Will Exceed $74B in 2011
App stores’ direct revenue to exceed $14 billion next year and reach close to $37 billion by 2015
GameLook Daily View
GameLook Today: Social Game in China
GameLook Today:Japan VS China
GameLook Today:Tencent falling love with KingSoft?
GameLook Today:Everybody is opening in China
GameLook Today:changing from Copy to Innovation
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