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Tencent, NetEase rethink Japan approach as game strategy stalls

Tencent Holdings and its smaller peer NetEase lost an estimated combined US$80 billion in market value before the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed for the Christmas weekend.
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Market rout shows regulating China’s video gaming is no child’s play

Investors hope regulators will roll back at least some of the more divisive rules, now taking industry feedback over the next month.

Tencent, NetEase bounce back after Beijing softens gaming stance

In a battle to defend its status as China’s biggest gaming firm,Tencent has chosen to promote Dreamstar on ByteDance’s popular advertising platforms.

Tencent turns to ByteDance in gaming showdown with NetEase

Tencent remains China’s biggest Internet company.

Tencent launches party game ‘DreamStar’, analysts say poses a threat to NetEase

NetEase is still up 43 per cent this year, far outpacing Tencent as well as Chinese technology and global game peers.

Tencent game threat seen overdone in NetEase’s US$8 billion sell-off

The blockbuster hits are changing fortunes for NetEase, which about a year ago was still reeling from a freeze in new gaming approvals following Beijing’s crackdown on the sector.

NetEase’s 85% stock comeback defies China’s slowdown

Ejoy, the Alibaba subsidiary behind the hit mobile game Three Kingdoms Tactics was ordered to delete 79 items which were considered to have infringed on the copyrights of Shuai Tu Zhi Bin, another popular strategy game developed by NetEase, according to the court’s ruling.

Alibaba unit ordered to pay NetEase US$7.2 million over game copyright violation

Chatbots in China mostly focus on social interactions whereas ChatGPT, which learns from vast amounts of data how to answer prompts by users in a human-like manner, performs better at more professional tasks.

Chinese firms join global craze for developing ChatGPT-style technology

The approval of imported games last December marked the end of China’s crackdown on the video game industry which began in August in 2021 when regulators suspended the game approval process.

China to import 27 new video games, including Tencent, NetEase titles