China approves 95 new video games in April, including Lost Soul Aside from Sony and NetEase’s Broken Land

Action role-playing game Lost Soul Aside received a licence for release on personal computers as well as for gaming consoles PlayStation 4 and 5, according to the NPPA list. NetEase’s Broken Land was previously known as Code 56. Photo: NetEase Tencent Holdings, which runs the world’s biggest video gaming business by revenue, received the regulator’s … Read more

Microsoft’s Blizzard resumes NetEase partnership, bringing World of Warcraft back to Chinese players after bitter break-up

Blizzard Entertainment, the video game giant behind World of Warcraft, is resuming its partnership with NetEase under its new owner Microsoft, marking a revival of the most enduring US-China video game partnership that had an acrimonious break-up over a year ago. Confirming an earlier South China Morning Post report, the two companies renewed a publishing … Read more