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Tencent has snapped up exclusive publishing rights to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds in China News Nov 22nd, 2017

Tencent has snapped up exclusive publishing rights to Playerunknown's Battlegrounds in China

Tech and entertainment giant promises to deal with cheaters, run official regional servers and comply with country's notoriously tough regulations

NetEase's China Minecraft launch brings in 30m players News Nov 16th, 2017

NetEase's China Minecraft launch brings in 30m players

Across both PC and mobile

Why Cliff Harris is getting out of publishing and has decided he likes Early Access Profile Nov 15th, 2017

Why Cliff Harris is getting out of publishing and has decided he likes Early Access

And why he's bringing Democracy to China

Esports, MMOs and China: We catch up with Trion Worlds chief Scott Hartsman Profile Nov 10th, 2017

Esports, MMOs and China: We catch up with Trion Worlds chief Scott Hartsman

The MMO specialist has many fingers in many pies

Tencent is Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ publisher for China, might still acquire Bluehole News Nov 9th, 2017

Tencent is Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds’ publisher for China, might still acquire Bluehole

Shareholders might want sale given PUBG has grown Bluehole to a $5.4bn company

Grand Theft Auto Online once again smashes revenue records News Nov 8th, 2017

Grand Theft Auto Online once again smashes revenue records

CEO Strauss Zelnick also talks China and microtransactions

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds unlikely to officially launch in China News Oct 30th, 2017

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds unlikely to officially launch in China

Game “severely deviates from the socialist core value and the Chinese traditional culture and moral rule”

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds faces review bombing from Chinese audience News Oct 3rd, 2017

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds faces review bombing from Chinese audience

And you can watch this take place with Valve's new review graphs

Valve bolsters Counter-Strike: Global Offensive China offering News Aug 30th, 2017

Valve bolsters Counter-Strike: Global Offensive China offering

Servers and region-specific stickers launching for the Chinese market

IHS: Chinese PC market worth $13.1bn in 2016 News Jun 29th, 2017

IHS: Chinese PC market worth $13.1bn in 2016

88 per cent of revenue came from microtransactions; premium PC downloads rose 307% year-on-year

Tencent shows impressive growth in 2016 with a staggering $21 billion in revenues generated News Mar 22nd, 2017

Tencent shows impressive growth in 2016 with a staggering $21 billion in revenues generated

$6.3 billion generated in Q4 alone

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