China has given the nod to 128 Chinese and foreign video games for domestic release in October, a batch that includes the highly anticipated Goddess of Victory: Nikke, backed by Tencent Holdings, as excitement in the country’s gaming industry continues following the release of Black Myth: Wukong. The National Press and Publication Administration, the agency … Read more
Chinese tech giants providing dining and travel-booking services saw consumer spending surge on their platforms during the “golden week” National Day holiday, according to data released by on-demand local services firms including Meituan and ByteDance-owned Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. During the first five days of the annual break, which ran this year from … Read more
At the heart of the ongoing reversal of globalisation lies a deficit of political trust. Despite the continued logical appeal of globalisation, geopolitical tensions and concerns about national security and employment are fuelling tariffs and sanctions, as well as artificially inflating the cost of trade. Meanwhile, at the people-to-people level, flights between China and the … Read more
Feng’s obsession with Wukong, the Monkey King character from the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, started as early as his stint at Tencent, the world’s largest video gaming company by revenue. There he was a core member of the development team on a project called Asura, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game based … Read more
Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and NetEase announced back-to-back new title releases, in a sign of intensified competition among the country’s top two video gaming publishers, as other Big Tech firms throw in the towel. NetEase, the country’s second-largest online gaming firm, plans to release about a dozen new games next week, including titles in … Read more
