Tencent, Qualcomm, and Vivo recently announced a new partnership, with a view to refining game experiences by harnessing the potential of on-device mobile AI. We've all heard so much about AI in recent months that it's easy to assume any reference [...]

The mobile game Honor of Kings has generated USD$1bn (£757.5m) through the month of February. By now, stories of free-to-play mobile games making extravagant amounts of money are relatively familiar, but the ramping success of TenCent's 'multiplayer online battle arena' game [...]

Computing hardware specialist Intel and Chinese tech giant Tencent are expected to announce a co-developed game streaming service at this month’s Game Developers Conference. The likely announcement emerged after a series of tweets from Daniel Ahmad of market research and consulting [...]

Two current game business stories together highlight the stark dichotomy at the heart of China’s games market. As revealed in a new report from business insight specialist IHS Markit, Chinese tech giants Tencent and NetEase saw extraordinary profit growth for their [...]

Social Networking giant Facebook saw its mobile app downloaded more times than those of any other publisher globally in the closing months of 2018, according to a new report. The Facebook app was downloaded 800 million times through October to December [...]

More games are to be released in China. Under normal circumstances, that statement would be far from newsworthy. But for nine months in 2018, the world's largest games market had been significantly stifled by new Government regulation. In March last year, [...]

Apple customers across the world collectively spent USD$1.22bn (£1.7bn) in the week that ran from Christmas Day 2018 to New Years Day 2019: the company's user spending record for the period. The festive week is famously a time for peaks in [...]

China may be the world's biggest game market, with regard to user numbers and revenues, but for many months the nation's Government had declined to approve a single new game. That all changed in recent days. As reported by the South [...]

Fortnite is the break-out gaming success of the year. It has currently got 45 million users playing the game (across platforms) and has a run rate of around USD$3bn (£2.3bn) per year. The game has barely touched the sides in [...]