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Blizzard and NetEase renew license deal for WoW in China
Joystiq by Jef Reahard on Mar 21st 2012 9:00AM World of Warcraft may be bleeding subs in America thanks to newer competition, but don't tell that to Chinese publisher NetEase. The firm just renewed its licensing deal with Blizzard which will cover localization … |
 Fast Company |
What "Wizard101" Gave Up To Break Into China: Exposed Bones, Points, Gold
Fast Company BY Kevin Ohannessian Today The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing esoteric systems so the … |
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Gaming Didn't Die in China
Motley Fool By Rick Aristotle Munarriz | More Articles Even China isn't immune to the waning global popularity of Activision Blizzard's (Nasdaq: ATVI ) World of Warcraft. NetEase.com (Nasdaq: NTES ) came through with better than expected quarterly results last … NetEase.com's 4Q Net Up 26% As Revenue Rises NetEase Earnings Grow 31%, Beating Street Forecasts Online game operator NetEase records 26% jump in Q4 profits |
 Daily Mail |
Computer game gamble is key to Anelka's China deal
Daily Mail The9 achieved a NASDAQ stock listing in the United States several years ago on the back of having exclusive Chinese rights to the world's most popular role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Zhu made his fortune — once rated as high as £120million but … Shanghai's rise is no surprise Next stop, Great Wall |
 ESPN |
Nick Harris: Computer game gamble is key to Anelka¿s China deal away from Chelsea
Daily Mail The9 achieved a NASDAQ stock listing in the United States several years ago on the back of having exclusive Chinese rights to the world's most popular role-playing game, World of Warcraft. Zhu made his fortune — once rated as high as £120million but … Shanghai's rise is no surprise Next stop, Great Wall |
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9 Jailed over Hacking of Online Games in E China
CRIENGLISH.com Yan, a programmer at a Beijing-based information technology company, acted on Zhao's request to crack programs and obtain users' passwords for online games including World of Warcraft and Maple Story from 2009 to 2010, the statement said. … |
 Penn Olson |
Is Blizzard Considering Switching to Tencent for WoW in China
Penn Olson Blizzard's World of Warcraft may be seeing a downswing in its user base, but it's still got more players — and rakes in more money — than you probably care to imagine. And, nearly alone among Western-developed games, it's super popular in China, … |
Regardless, NetEase posted revenues of 2.0 billion Chinese yuan, up 39.8% — a substantial number. In China, it seems that World of Warcraft is still a force to be reckoned with, dropping subscriber numbers or not.
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 Gamasutra |
World of Warcraft is doing quite well in China, thank you very much
Joystiq Earlier this month we heard the news that World of Warcraft's subscriber base took yet another substantial hit, although Blizzard was quick to say that most of these losses were coming from eastern countries … Chinese WoW Operator NetEase Posts Q3 Revenue, Profits Rise NetEase profits and revenue rise on Chinese WoW Gaming Isn't Dead in China |
 Penn Olson |
As Closed Beta Begins, Fears of Diablo 3 Censorship in China
Penn Olson And even though the company's World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online game is still destroying new games even as it approaches the eighth year of its reign, they're currently in the beta-testing stages of their latest drug game, an action RPG … |