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Chinese version of Steam launches in alpha News May 27th, 2020

Chinese version of Steam launches in alpha

Comes with local restrictions and features

Tencent snaps up 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous News May 26th, 2020

Tencent snaps up 20% stake in Japanese games firm Marvelous

“In comparison to Western companies, there is a widening abyss in terms of development capability and financial clout"

Creative Assembly looking to address huge Chinese Total War audience News May 5th, 2020

Creative Assembly looking to address huge Chinese Total War audience

Follows Three Kingdoms' impressive launch

Tencent buys $263m stake in Chinese streaming firm Huya News Apr 27th, 2020

Tencent buys $263m stake in Chinese streaming firm Huya

Firm owns part of rival platform Douyu and runs its own service

China gives nod to Nvidia Mellanox acquisition News Apr 17th, 2020

China gives nod to Nvidia Mellanox acquisition

Firm reckons that the deal will close later this month

Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform News Mar 27th, 2020

Tencent and Huawei partner for cloud games platform

Service called GameMatrix, powered by the Kunpeng processor

NetEase takes over Eve Online publisher role in China News Mar 13th, 2020

NetEase takes over Eve Online publisher role in China

Relaunch set to happen "soon"

CVC Capital Partners might join iDreamSky in bid to acquire Leyou Technologies News Feb 28th, 2020

CVC Capital Partners might join iDreamSky in bid to acquire Leyou Technologies

Firm reportedly worth $1.4bn in the deal

Metro Exodus shifted around 200k copies in first few days on Steam News Feb 21st, 2020

Metro Exodus shifted around 200k copies in first few days on Steam

Title was exclusive to the Epic Games Store for 12 months

Report: This is what you need to know about launching a game in China News Feb 4th, 2020

Report: This is what you need to know about launching a game in China

Follows titles being prohibited from launching in the region for much of 2018

Tencent puts in offer to buy Oslo games firm Funcom News Jan 22nd, 2020

Tencent puts in offer to buy Oslo games firm Funcom

Chinese firm puts $148m on the table

Tencent says it wants to invest in more non-games businesses News Jan 21st, 2020

Tencent says it wants to invest in more non-games businesses

But that's not to say the Chinese behemoth is leaving this market behind

NetEase launches digital games platform in China News Jan 21st, 2020

NetEase launches digital games platform in China

Two games are currently available on the service

Chinese regulator taking action against games addiction News Jan 13th, 2020

Chinese regulator taking action against games addiction

Government worried about rise of mental health in the country

Simplified Chinese is now Steam's most popular language News Jan 9th, 2020

Simplified Chinese is now Steam's most popular language

According to hardware survey

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