This year’s ChinaJoy is over and its audience has not increased much, maybe it is because the B2B pavilion, CGBC and CGDC conference have attracted more insiders, which is good for ChinaJoy to improve its quality.
Action MMORPGs seem to be a new trend of this year’s ChinaJoy. Shanda Games showcased an XBOX action game and many other small companies followed suit. Thunder’s Final Combat is the most shining star of all FPS games at Chinajoy; this year will see 27 FPS games online and it is really a “FPS” year.
The most remarkable thing of this year’s ChinaJoy is that social games and web games’ conferences were held before others on the CGBC summit, which is consistent to the trend of global games industry. 150 guests joined the social games luncheon, which indicates the rising of social games and web games: more and more companies and investments are joining in.
ChinaJoy2011
ChinaJoy2011: Viewpoints of First Day Summit Forum
ChinaJoy2011: Viewpoints of First Day Summit Forum 2
ChinaJoy2011:Director of General Administration of Press and Publication Shoushan Sun’s speech abstract in Chinajoy
ChinaJoy2011:Ming Zong, Vice Minister of Shanghai Publicity Department
ChinaJoy 2011: Mobile Online Game Market Attract More Attention
MMO GAME
Changyou Reports Second Quarter 2011 Results
Chen Tianqiao: Grand Cloud was a decade in the making
Singapore encourages game developers to tap Chinese market
China’s Online Games Publishing Industry to Reach 57.8 Billion Yuan in 2015
Perfect World’s Dragon Excalibur entered South Korea with a new name Master OL
Tencent acquires Blade and Sword OL 2 from Pixel Soft, to be tested in August
iResearch: 2011Q2 China’s customer online game market size arrived 9.48 billion Yuan
Perfect World opens new overseas strategic layout
Changyou announced 2 billion Yuan revenue in 2010, with an average profit of 590,000 Yuan
Perfect World & SEGA will offer Saint Seiya Online in China mainland and Taiwan
Neoact to announce China’s operator for Dota type Chaos Online on Chinajoy
China Starts Digital Copyright Protection Project
NetEase Boasts 400 Million Email Users, Marching into the Lottery and Game Business
Illegal The World of Legend server operator arrested in China
Web Game
Joyport’s webgame Sacred Shevalier licensed to Japan
Online Media 265G to invest 20 million RMB on web games
Social Game
Hoolai Game Raises $20 Million Led by Sequoia Capital
Boyaa received 6 million dollars from Sequoia Capital
Yahoo! Kimo & Game Flier cooperate on social network games in Taiwan
Zynga Launches CityVille in China with Tencent
GameLook Today:More overseas social game companies will enter Tencent’s platform
Mobile Game
Shanda Games to release mobile games in Q3
Kylin Game to release mobile MMORPG Genghis Khan
Renren to launch open mobile platform, doubling its R&D investment