Rusty Rabbit | Release Date Trailer Rusty Rabbit, an upcoming Metroidvania published by NetEase, will launch on April 17 for PS5, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Originally teased in 2023, Rusty Rabbit has one of the wildest elevator pitches I’ve heard in some time. It’s a 2.5D Metroidvania set in a postapocalyptic world where adorable anthropomorphic … Read more
Chinese children will be limited to a total video game playing time of about 15 hours during their month-long winter school holiday, under strict rules designed to prevent them becoming addicted to games. Tencent Holdings and NetEase, China’s two biggest video-gaming companies, have signalled their adherence to existing regulations, which add up to no more … Read more
China approved 122 domestic and 13 foreign video games in December, bringing the total number of licensed titles to more than 1,400 this year, the highest since 2019. On Tuesday, the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA), the agency responsible for licensing video games in China, announced the list of approved domestic titles for the … Read more
China’s video gaming industry grew 7.53 per cent this year, reaching record sales of 325.8 billion yuan (US$44.8 billion), aided by the release of new hit games, according to the country’s semi-official gaming industry association. The figures for the domestic video game market, the second-largest in the world, mark the highest annual sales since the … Read more
China’s esports industry returned to growth in 2024, according to figures released by an industry association, as major video-gaming companies led by Tencent Holdings and NetEase bet big on the sector’s international expansion. Revenue generated by the esports industry grew 4.6 per cent from a year earlier to 27.6 billion yuan (US$3.8 billion), on the … Read more
NetEase, China’s second-largest video gaming company, has cut an undisclosed number of jobs involved in an “underperforming” project that will soon be shut down, according to a person with knowledge of the matter and Chinese media reports. The lay-offs at the company’s offices in southern tech hub Shenzhen affected employees involved in mobile game Hyper … Read more
Google Play, the official online store for Android-based apps, has named Meituan-owned online delivery platform Keeta and fantasy role-playing game AFK Journey, developed by the global publishing unit of Shanghai firm Lilith Games, among the winners of its “Best of 2024” awards in Hong Kong. Keeta, which was rolled out in Hong Kong in May … Read more
The natural charms of Hangzhou in China were immortalised more than 1,000 years ago in the poems of Bai Juyi and Lin Bu, and it remains a draw to this day even as the city has grown into a hub for innovation. Known for its ancient streets and tree-lined canals, on the first day of … Read more
On a film set that resembles the medieval castle of a Chinese lord, Zhu Jian is busy disrupting the world’s second-largest movie industry. The 69-year-old actor is playing the patriarch of a wealthy family celebrating his birthday with a lavish banquet. But unbeknown to either of them, the servant in the scene is his biological … Read more
The NPPA has licensed a total of 850 domestic titles in the first eight months of this year, compared with 609 in the same period in 2023. A screenshot from Tencent Holdings’ action game Yirenzhixia. Photo: qq.com The large number of titles approved in August reflects the significant recovery in China’s video gaming market since … Read more
