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Gaming in China: Sales of online gaming industry hit 4 billion US dollars in 2009

The pace of growth of China’s online gaming industry slowed in 2009, growing 30.2 percent to 27.1 billion yuan ($3.97 billion) over the previous year, according to data from research firm iResearch […]

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Gaming in China: investigating potential World of Warcraft upset, China may ban game

Blizzard and World of Warcraft have been having some trouble as of late in China, but this piece of news seems much more foreboding that anything that came before it. Apparently, an anonymous insider says China’s General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP) has assigned Shanghai’s News and Press Bureau to investigate a joint venture established by NetEase and Blizzard […]

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Gaming in China: Netease wins 3-year license for World of Warcraft

Chinese online game vendor Netease Inc announced that it has got the license to run Activision Blizzard Entertainment blockbuster video game World of Warcraft in China for the next three years […]

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The Open Web Asia’08 Conference: Videos available online

The Open Web Asia ’08 Conference was held in Seoul recently, it is the first pan-Asia tech event to bring together startups, investors and industry players in Asia and western countries. Check out these videos of the panel (thanks Masaru IKEDA from Asiajin)

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Internet in China: 59 million Online Gamers in 2008

The year-long survey, Netguide 2008, conducted by the Data Center of the China Internet (DCCI) and the Internet Society of China (ISC), polled more than 300 websites, 270 enterprises and 50,786 persons.Results suggest that the number of Chinese online gamers will likely surpass 59 million in 2008, a 20 percent increase on 2007’s 48 million, reports China View. The survey also found that the market value of Chinese online gaming in 2007 rocketed 57 percent from 2006’s 9.36 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars) […]

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Internet in China: online game market hit 1.8 billion US Dollars in 2007

China’s online gaming market surged 66.7 percent year-on-year to hit 12.8 billion yuan in 2007, according to a report released by i Research Inc., a Shanghai-based consulting firm. The jump is largely driven by China’s massive player-pool and operators‘ marketing efforts, said the firm. The number of China’s netizens grew 53 percent last year from 2006 to hit 210 million by December, which means the country is close to overtaking the United States to become the world’s No. 1 by web population size, according to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC): Nearly 60 percent of the web users (more than 120 million) have played at least one title in the past year, with an average of 7.3 hours spent on the online games every week. Twenty-one percent of them even played more than 10 hours a week […]

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Internet in China: consumption expected to rise 45.8% in 2008

China’s Internet consumption hit 398.8 billion yuan (53.89 billion U.S. dollars) last year and is expected to reach 581.5 billion yuan in 2008, up 45.8 percent, according to a survey released recently. The ‘Netguide 2008‘ survey, which provides a wrap-up of China’s2007 cyber world, polled more than 300 web sites and about 200 enterprises, with 50,786 interviewees around the country […]

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China’s 2007 online ad market may exceed 1.3 Billion US Dollars

China’s online advertising market is likely to exceed ten billion yuan (1.3 billion U.S. dollars) this year, a research report said. The figure represents a 114.6 percent increase from the 4.66 billion yuan of last year. In October, the nation’s online advertising revenues hit 870 million yuan, lifting the market size to 7.5 billion yuan in the first ten months, according to the report from Nielsen, a leading global information and media company. The growth rate of China’s online advertising, one of the most successful business models for Internet firms, was higher than that of broadcasting advertising and magazine advertising…