Today, we discuss Krafton’s global M&A strategy, and our new podcast episode gives you a game industry market update. We also round up this week’s top news items and bring you a fresh list of content worth consuming. The post Krafton’s Global M&A Strategy appeared first on Naavik.| Naavik
Rising, Bungie’s first mobile entry, launched Aug 28, 2025. Developed by NetEase, this free-to-play shooter expands Destiny to mobile & China.| Naavik
Back in March, Ubisoft announced it would be creating a Tencent-backed subsidiary focused on its biggest franchises: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six. Today, on its first day of operation, the name of that subsidiary has been revealed: Vantage Studios. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Funcom, the Oslo-based studio behind the recently released Dune: Awakening, has announced it will be laying off staff. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Splash Damage is now no longer owned by the Chinese video-game giant Tencent, having been acquired by private-equity investors. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Tencent is disputing Sony's claims that its upcoming game Light of Motiram is a "slavish clone" of its tentpole Horizon series, claiming the latter is not "fighting off piracy, plagiarism, or any genuine threat to intellectual property" but is instead attempting to "transform ubiquitous genre ingredients into proprietary assets." Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Tencent is one of the largest video-game companies in the world. In addition to running various studios in China, it wholly or partly owns dozens of game companies across the globe, including Riot Games, Funcom, Sumo Group, Turtle Rock Studios, Techland, Supercell, Don't Nod, Epic Games, and most recently Ubisoft. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
The Chinese giant Tencent has approached the court with a request to dismiss the lawsuit from Sony, which was filed due to the similarities between the game Light of Motiram and the Horizon series projects. According to Tencent, there is actually no plagiarism involved — Light of Motiram merely incorporates established gaming ideas and concepts.| Game World Observer
Tencent fires back at Sony’s Horizon lawsuit, saying the claims are “startling” and an attempt to “fence off a well-trodden corner of popular culture,” while arguing Light of Motiram just uses “time-honored” genre tropes. Back in July, Sony filed a lawsuit against Tencent in California. Sony argued that Tencent’s upcoming game Light of Motiram was […]| The Game Post
Tencent profit climbs and capital expenditure doubles.| TahawulTech.com
Sony’s lawsuit over Horizon similarities has Light of Motiram changing its Steam store, changing screenshots, art, and even its game description.| The Game Post
Tencent has quietly removed, edited, and/or replaced key art on the Steam page of its upcoming adventure game, Light of…| Eurogamer.net
The Sony Corporation has filed a lawsuit against Tencent, accusing the Chinese giant of copyright infringement. Sony insists that Tencent’s subsidiary team’s survival game, Light of Motiram, is a blatant copy of the Horizon series games.| Game World Observer
Who has what it takes to create the next hit live-service FPS? Explore the top contenders reshaping the future of multiplayer shooters.| Naavik
The Hurun Research Institute has released a list of the 500 most valuable companies based in China. Let’s take a closer look at the enterprises related to the games industry and how their rankings have changed from the previous year.| Game World Observer
In this work, we study how Tencent implements image filtering on WeChat. We found that Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat based on what text is in an image and based on an image’s visual similarity to those on a blacklist. Tencent facilitates this realtime filtering by maintaining a hash index of MD5 hashes of sensitive image files.| The Citizen Lab
In this report we provide the first systematic study of keyword and website censorship on WeChat, the most popular chat app in China| The Citizen Lab
Netflix’s show is available from March 21st but there’s a Tencent Three-Body Problem TV series available right now! Let’s look at how China adapted one of the best scifi books in recent years. Is Tencent’s Three-Body Problem worth watching before, after or side-by-side with Netflix’s new blockbuster show? You decide but please, as a scifi […]| TechTheLead