Niko News on Chinese & SE Asian Game Markets
Volume 153May 2013

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China's PC online game market to hit $11.9B in 2013

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3:16 PM - 13 May 13 

 

League Of Legends And ESports Thrive In China, Alongside Online And Mobile Games

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10:46 AM - 9 May 13

  

Tencent's WeChat 5.0 rumored to include new features: mobile payments, gaming & paid subscription options

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2:16 PM - 8 May 13 

  

China's I-cafe Usage Meeting Niko's Estimates

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9:13 AM - 8 May 13 

  

ChangYou increases its bet on webgames by buying remaining 28% stake in 7Road, a webgame dev that contributed 20% of ChangYou's Q1 2013 rev

1:46 PM - 7 May 13 

  

RT @yodo1: Mobile games will disrupt casual & social PC game market in China, @nikochina reports: http://bit.ly/YpuyNP  via @VentureBeat

3:52 PM - 6 May 13 

  

RT @alistdaily: .@nikochina says that the Chinese online PC market will see $11.9 billion in sales this year.

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5:20 PM - 3 May 13  

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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 report in Marbridge Daily, China Telecom plans to launch a "light gaming interactive entertainment platform" within its gaming portal named e-Game. It will include direct billing and third-party platform billing for developers. It will support developer partners with many resources. The E-Game portal currently has more than 120 million users with 30 million monthly active users. "Light games" is somewhat akin to "casual games," it seems.  

The Ministry of Culture reported that Chinese games companies exported 66 domestically developed online games to the tune of $587 million in revenue in 2012. The export leader was 7 Road, owned by ChangYou, pulling in 100 million RMB ($16 million) in 2012 and reportedly 210 million RMB ($33 million) in Q1 2013 alone. The number of exported games and the total revenue earned overseas has risen annually.  

Online video is a hot segment in China, with many competitors in a fragmented market. Niko tracks online video usage in I-cafés in our Monthly Chinese I-Café Games/SNS/Online Video Data service. Baidu is a market leader, and the company has a video platform called iQiyi. Baidu recently announced the acquisition of PPStream to merge into iQiyi. This will make Baidue China's largest online video platform based on number of mobile users and video viewing time. Niko is currently working on additional analysis of the online video segment.  

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