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Pay-to-win mechanics popular in China but the West is not on board News Jun 1st, 2018

Pay-to-win mechanics popular in China but the West is not on board

Different roots and journeys for these regions have created vastly different markets

Tencent sheds $78bn in value due to rising costs News May 14th, 2018

Tencent sheds $78bn in value due to rising costs

Rising costs and continued investments will strain profits

Chinese PC games revenue to reach $17.4 billion by 2022 News May 10th, 2018

Chinese PC games revenue to reach $17.4 billion by 2022

Esports and battle royale credited for faster-than-expected growth

15 arrested on suspicion of selling PUBG hacks News May 1st, 2018

15 arrested on suspicion of selling PUBG hacks

Fined $5.1m by Chinese law enforcement

Tencent is publishing Robocraft in China News Apr 30th, 2018

Tencent is publishing Robocraft in China

Tech and entertainment giant snaps up the rights for publishing in that region

Tencent wants to take on Minecraft and Hearthstone News Apr 25th, 2018

Tencent wants to take on Minecraft and Hearthstone

Chinese games giant reckons it has the next generation of sandbox games on its hands

Tencent puts $15m behind Fortnite China release News Apr 24th, 2018

Tencent puts $15m behind Fortnite China release

Chinese publisher plans esports push

Fortnite is launching in China News Apr 23rd, 2018

Fortnite is launching in China

The battle bus ventures East

Ubisoft teams up with Tencent to launch games in China News Mar 21st, 2018

Ubisoft teams up with Tencent to launch games in China

Strategic partnership sees the French firm's tites in the region

Over 1m people were banned from PUBG in January alone News Feb 6th, 2018

Over 1m people were banned from PUBG in January alone

“Unfortunately things continue to escalate.”

Cloud tech firm Improbable teams up with Chinese games giant Netease News Feb 2nd, 2018

Cloud tech firm Improbable teams up with Chinese games giant Netease

Fantasy Westward Journey developer to use cloud-based platform SpatialOS for new games

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds China user base flatlines at just below 10m News Feb 1st, 2018

Playerunknown's Battlegrounds China user base flatlines at just below 10m

Users could be waiting for the Tencent-published official release for the region

Tencent is teaming up with Chinese police to crack down on PUBG cheaters News Jan 17th, 2018

Tencent is teaming up with Chinese police to crack down on PUBG cheaters

120 arrested in 30 cases in the region

Steam bandwidth increases four times following Playerunknown's Battlegrounds 1.0 release News Dec 22nd, 2017

Steam bandwidth increases four times following Playerunknown's Battlegrounds 1.0 release

60 per cent of title's playerbase is in China

It looks like Steam Community has been blocked in China News Dec 19th, 2017

It looks like Steam Community has been blocked in China

Is this just the first salvo in a bid to get rid of Valve's storefront?

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