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Netease Games announced today that they'll be launching a new AAA MMO from Greg Street's Fantastic Pixel Castle studio. Greg Street was the lead designer of the Riot Games MMO as well as a lead systems designer for World of Warcraft. The game is currently codenamed 'Ghost' and will be set in a fantasy universe. "With Fantastic Pixel [...]
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Last week, PUBG Corp. filed a copyright infringement suit against NetEase and their Rules of Survival and Knives Out Battle Royale games. According to the lawsuit filed in the Northern District Court of California, NetEase allegedly “cloned” PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and released Rules of Survival for mobile devices “at or below cost for the purpose of gaining market share before PUBG [...]
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NetEase is a massive company that publishes a large number of games, as well as operating within a few other businesses, but it's easy to forget just how big the company is. According to its latest financial report, in 2016, NetEase Games' annual net income totaled 11.6 billion RMB, or around $1.7 billion, which is a staggering 73.1% increase over [...]
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While I don't have access to the analytics myself, 2p is reporting that App Annie's mobile market statistics for the month of October 2016 are showing that NetEase Games has sured Tencent in of mobile games revenue. The two Chinese gaming giants have been in an unspoken battle for the top spot for some time now, with Tencent dominating [...]
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