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Blizzard and NetEase Sign Three-Year World of Warcraft Agreement for Chinese Market

Chinese video game operator NetEase has announced that it has entered into an agreement with developer Blizzard and publisher Activision to run the MMO World of Warcraft on the Chinese market for another three years.The deal is valuable for both sides, as it has made World of Warcraft the biggest earner for NetEase w...

21 March 2012
14:01 GMT

World of Warcraft Drives Growth for NetEase in China

Video game service producer and online game publisher NetEase has announced that it managed to obtain better than expected revenue and profits for the fourth quarter of 2011, which ended in December, powered by the World of Warcraft MMO and by online games Fantasy Westward Journey and Westward Journey Online II. The...

20 February 2012
13:31 GMT

NetEase Might Bring Call of Duty Franchise to China

Gaming network NetEase, one of the biggest on the Chinese market, has announced that it has increased revenue by a full 25 percent when compared to the previous fiscal year and seems to be in advanced negotiations with publisher Activision Blizzard linked with bringing the Call of Duty series to China. The company a...

24 May 2011
10:19 GMT

Starcraft II Goes to China, Beta Starts of March 29

Developer Blizzard Entertainment has announced that on March 29 it will begin a beta testing phase for the Chinese version of its real-time strategy hit Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty, with the plan being to launch the game during this year on the Chinese market.The beta test period will allow players to create an ac...

21 March 2011
06:51 GMT

Analyst: Starcraft 2 Might Arrive in China in 2011

An analyst has said that Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty, the real time strategy blockbuster from Blizzard, could be officially launched in China during next year, with the developer and its Chinese partner NetEase now working with the Communist government to gain approval for the game.Doug Creutz, who is an analyst fo...

23 November 2010
16:31 GMT

Analyst: Call of Duty MMO Could Launch in China First

We already know that Treyarch, as the developer, and Activision, as the publisher, will be launching Call of Duty: Black Ops this fall but the future of the well known franchise is a bit cloudy when 2011 starts. One of the most present rumors is saying that Activision is interested in creating a MMO based around Call...

2 August 2010
18:11 GMT

World of Warcraft Might Come Back Online in China

While most games rely on it, no other genre in the industry abuses it quite like the MMO. Addiction and obsessive repetition are the foundation that holds every MMO on its feet and generating subscriptions, and no one does it better than World of Warcraft. The game has already surpassed 11 million monthly subscriptio...

4 January 2010
03:43 GMT

China Shuts Down World of Warcraft

World of Warcraft spent a lot of 2009 sleeping in China, with its servers offline. Now a more crushing blow has been dealt to its WoW community. Reuters reports that the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, or GAPP, has revoked NetEase's permit to operate the game on its territory. The compa...

3 November 2009
04:04 GMT

World of Warcraft Relaunched in China

NetEase has officially announced that World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription-based MMO in the gaming world, has been relaunched on the Chinese market and both old and new players can now enjoy the experience of raiding and playing PvP without any restrictions. The operations of the MMO in China have been i...

23 September 2009
06:35 GMT

Analysts: China Matters Little to World of Warcraft

The downtime that World of Warcraft has been suffering in China, as operators on that market are being switched from The9 to NetEase, is seen as something of a small catastrophe for Blizzard, the company that created the game, because of the huge number of Chinese gamers who are playing the MMO.Still, the widely held...

4 August 2009
16:31 GMT

World of Warcraft Still Down in China, Beta Planned

Earlier in the year, World of Warcraft was announced by Blizzard to be changing operator on the Chinese market. The9 was to cease offering the MMO to gamers, while NetEase was set to pick up the publishing duties as soon as possible.The problem is that the game, almost one month after the handover, it is still not pl...

29 July 2009
05:34 GMT

World of Warcraft Could Be Losing Subscribers in China

Earlier this year, we talked about how World of Warcraft day to day operations in China would no longer be handled by The9, as NetEase picked up that task. Unfortunately, the change means that servers for the MMO will be down for some time, which might make a number of players jump ship and be interested in other mas...

29 May 2009
16:31 GMT

World of Warcraft Will Be Handled by NetEase in China

Activision Blizzard has confirmed that it has ended its agreement with The9 for the operation of World of Warcraft in China. The MMO will now be operated in the country by another company, namely NetEase. The contract is rumored to be for a duration of three years and Activision Blizzard has not officially disclosed ...

21 April 2009
16:21 GMT

Google Receives a Chinese Slap

Netease, a Chinese company that has been one of the most powerful Google partners in the country, announced that it will end the agreement with the Mountain View firm. The Internet Portal is now offering Google Search to all of its users through the official page of the company. However, the company announced its int...

23 May 2007
15:06 GMT


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