gaming

The United States dominated investment in the gaming industry last year, accounting for 36 percent of the total deal value, followed by China at 27 percent, according to a new report.

The number of Chinese game users reached 665 million in 2020. The mobile game market accounts for 75.2% of sales revenue.

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent has teamed up with a number of TV manufacturers, including TCL, Hisense, Changhong and Konka, to launch a TV version of its START cloud game platform.

Qualcomm will be partnering with Asus to launch its own brand's first smartphone, reported DigiTimes.

The Honor Hunter V700 gaming laptop was announced today, marking Honor's first foray into the gaming laptop segment.

Police in Yangzhou, China's Jiangsu province, recently cracked a case of theft involving PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), in which more than 3 million user accounts were stolen, with a value of 19 million yuan, according to CCTV.

More than 20 games suspected to be the first batch from Steam China have been leaked in SteamDB, a third-party database site for Steam. 

Chinese social media giant Tencent is driving discussions to merge the country's biggest game-streaming platforms Huya and DouYu,  Bloomberg reported Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.

From January to June 2020, China's gaming market generated sales revenue of 139.493 billion yuan, up 22.34 percent year-on-year, according to a report released during the 18th ChinaJoy.

There are currently about 1,200 certified professional esports commentators in China and most of them can make over ten thousand yuan a month, according to CCTV.