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Once Human, the latest free to play title by Netease, launches July 9, 2024. The game mixes a handful of popular genres together to create something that is quite unique. Billed as a multiplayer open-world survival game, Once Human is set in a horror-tinged post apocalyptic future. The game opens as what seems like a horror themed shooter, but quickly [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase have mended their fences after a particularly nasty falling out last year. For context, both parties cut ties with each other in January 2023 after failing to negotiate new , which Blizzard chalked up to a difference in principles while NetEase accused them of negotiating in bad faith. The end of the partnership led to mass [...]
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Last week, the Chinese government drafted new measures to limit the time that its citizens can spend playing online games while also prohibiting events and capping spending on microtransactions, with a particular focus on gacha rolls and lootboxes. The law was drafted by the Chinese National Press and Publication istration. The goal is to curb “excessive spending” on online [...]
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My.com has announced that the European and North American servers for Revelation Online will be shut down on March 13, 2024. The free to play fantasy MMORPG was developed by Chinese developer NetEase and first released in the West back in February 2017. It enjoyed an early spurt of popularity, but has been all but abandoned for several years now. [...]
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In a bizarre turn of events, a story about a $43 million lawsuit filed by NetEase against Blizzard in a Shanghai court was recently found to have been a filing error all along. It all started when a legitimate Chinese financial website reported on the case, but it turns out that the information provided by financial website Sina Technology was [...]
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NetEase and Blizzard’s feud has gone beyond destroying statues and personal attacks between its executives as the former takes the latter to court in China, suing Blizzard Entertainment for violating their licensing agreements. In a Shanghai court, NetEase is seeking a whopping $43 million in compensation for prepayments, unsold inventory, and consumer refunds related to Blizzard's now-defunct MMOs. They're also [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase’s long-running partnership to publish World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles in China will officially be coming to an end this Monday. Normally, the end of a publishing deal doesn’t merit a lot, but there seems to be a whole lot of drama surrounding the dissolution of this particular deal as both companies lay the blame [...]
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NetEase has laid off nearly a hundred employees of its Shanghai EaseNet Network Technology following disagreements with Blizzard Entertainment that led to the end of its publishing partnership with the American video game company in the country. According to The South China Morning Post (via Kotaku), the Chinese tech giant recently disbanded the team handling Blizzard games at the [...]
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Blizzard Entertainment will be suspending nearly all of their game services in China after failing to negotiate a new licensing deal with their Chinese publisher NetEase. The partnership between the two companies will officially be coming to an end in January 2023 and unless Blizzard can broker a new deal by that time or find a new publishing partner in [...]
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Chinese video game and technology company NetEase has acquired another video game developer to add to its growing list of subsidiaries. The latest addition to the NetEase family is Paris-based developer Quantic Dream, the studio behind the smash hit sci-fi action adventure game Detroit: Become Human. NetEase has apparently been investing in the studio for the past few years and [...]
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