Niko News is a filter of the most important news items and bits of information concerning the games markets of China and Southeast Asia uncovered by Niko each week. Our multilingual analysts review dozens of news sources from several countries, and as a team Niko reduces the long list of articles to 3-4 "must read" items for you. We then provide our Niko analysis to these items, making them relevant and highlighting the importance for the market. This service is one of the many ways we help distill the confusing, conflicting information about the games markets of Asia for our clients and readers. 

According to a post in the Marbridge Daily, Ourgame will have an IPO on a Chinese exchage. The company operates more than 200 games and more than 100 Flash mini-games. Ourgame was a well-known entity in mainland China's games market in 2005, 2006, 2007 - mid-decade. The company was the Chinese arm of Korea's NHN in a joint venture with a Chinese company. At the end of 2010 a Chinese investor purchased 100% of Ourgame, bringing out from under its Korean executive leadership. We don't hear much about Ourgame's games anymore but evidently there are many of them, and it is another of the smaller Chinese game companies to opt to list its shares on a domestic exchange. 

Update on the Philippines new Cyber Crimes Law: The Philippine Supreme Court has issued a preliminary injunction against the law that had been signed by President Aquino last month. Niko wrote about the outcry from Filipinos regarding the law, and one of the major concerns is that people interpreted the law to deem slanderous posts on social networks as crimes. As in: "Susie's outfit was horrific yesterday" - ding.  

Tech in Asia reports that China's Top 10 Tech and Web Companies by Revenue includes many publicly traded online game companies including: Tencent, NetEase, Shanda, Perfect World, Giant, and Sina. And a bit further down in the list of the Top 100 are Qihoo360 and Taomee. It is no surprise that the games industry leaders would be in that list, considering that the PC online games market will generate $9.6 billion in 2012 per Niko's forecast. Tencent holds 49% share of the online games market revenues this year as of our September Mid-Year Update report.