Gaming

According to foreign media reports, according to a study published by market research firm NPD Group, sales of the video gaming industry in the US continued to fall in July this year, despite strong growth in Microsoft's Xbox game sales. The report said sales in the video gaming industry fell 1% Year-on-year in July, from 850.6 million dollars last July to $846.5 million, although sales in the hardware industry rose by 12%. So far this year, the game industry sales revenue fell 8% year-on-year, from the same period last year, 8.2 billion U.S. dollars down to 7.5 billion U.S.

Beijing time July 23 afternoon news, according to foreign media reported today, sources revealed that Disney and social game developers playdom negotiations between the end of the year. According to the source's due diligence documents, Disney and Playdom called the deal "the Platinum Project" (Project Platinum). Part of the source said the two sides have signed a takeover agreement, is now in the closing stage.　　But sources say the deal has not yet been signed and there are still some unresolved issues. Disney has previously been on the Playdo ...

Iger, Disney CEO Bob Iger, said that social games are crucial for Disney, according to foreign media reports in Wednesday, late August 12.　　In this area, Disney has invested hundreds of millions of of dollars in acquisitions, including the acquisition of Club Penguin and Playdom. "Obviously, games and social networks are important to us and worth paying attention to," says Eagle. At present, there are a large number of netizens playing games, social networking site Facebook has 500 million users, of which 40% ginseng ...

Bit network (chinabyte) July 23 News The annual ChinaJoy will be opened at the end of the month, the giant network has dozens of showgirl through the collective open Sina Weibo form, it is reported that the giant network is the first group to open showgirl micro-blog online business,　　It is also the first time that this new Internet application has entered the ChinaJoy exhibition. It is reported that the giant network for preparing for this year's ChinaJoy, has been heavily signed close to hundreds of showgirl, the internal finalized the "Hundred Girl Book" plan. Launched in Sina ...

Shanda Game Outsourcing procurement platform July 23 morning News, Shanda Game outsourcing procurement Platform (OSP.SDO.COM:8080) today on the line, and will begin 9:30 in the morning to accept the application for outsourcing.　　Take this grand game internal demand can directly face the outsourcing business, and this is the first domestic online gaming enterprises launched a professional game outsourcing procurement platform. Since 2008, as a grand game art research and Development strategy transformation of the first step, the outsourcing model began to carry out in the grand game of the project development process. It is said to have benefited from the good results of this model ...

New Express reporter Zhang Intern zhao today you seconds?　　Do not know when to start, seconds to kill quietly into the network world. The so-called "second Kill" is a network of sellers to release some ultra-low prices of goods, all buyers at the same time on the Internet to buy a way to sell, because of its speed, and sometimes even only a second to complete, play is the heartbeat, so this way is also popular with buyers.　　Second kill also peremptory became a kind of net buys new trend. On the surface, the buyer can buy the more upscale goods cheaply, but the seller compresses the channel cost, obtains the higher profit, but actually ...

Beijing time July 16 morning news, according to foreign media reports, the famous social gaming company Zynga released the new game FrontierVille (border city) data, indicating that the game started well. About five weeks after the launch, FrontierVille's monthly subscribers have reached 20 million, with a daily active user (DAU) of 6 million.　　This increased relative to the data on June 22, when daily active users and monthly users were 5 million and 12 million respectively. Zynga also released the following data indicating that the player ...

Li Hongguang Newspaper reporter Kai Ministry of Culture has issued a "network game management interim measures", and will be formally implemented from August 1 onwards. This approach will bring about the expansion of the concept of online games, "to clients, Web browsers and other terminals in the form of a variety of online game."　　"The first of these penalties, the ban on minors" virtual currency transactions, the use of real-name authentication, to standardize the development of the online game market will be able to play a positive role. Recently, Shanghai Jingan People's Court heard a "Pirate King" game registered player Xiao Xu, sued Shanghai Magic Travel Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as ...)

After being overtaken by Tencent to win the market share in the first place, Shanda is brewing all-out counterattack, in the two quarter launched a variety of weight products to reverse the situation.　　Shanda Games chairman and CEO Tan said that the second half of the grand game will be launched "The Valley of the Dragon", "Magic World II" and "star change" and so into the market. According to the grand announcement of the first quarter of 2010 earnings data showed that its revenue of 1.143 billion yuan, the chain down 14%, which comes from the MMORPG income of 1.0229 billion yuan, the chain down 20%. "Legendary World" and "Blood Legend ..."

At the same time, the two brothers arrested He Yi correspondent Chen Mingxiang Shenzhen Special Zone news (reporter He Yi correspondent Chen Mingxiang) Huang's brothers use Trojan program steal QQ China game equipment sold profit, the amount of money involved amounted to more than 1 million yuan.　　July 12, the Nanshan police in accordance with the report clues to trace, in the rental housing estate with the assistance of the staff, in a rented house on the Guanlan Street to arrest the two people. 12th Noon 12 O'Clock Xu, Guanlan Street min Community comprehensive management station Cheng Yufei and Yu Minggang, received the South Hill Public Security Bureau police calls, request investigation two suspects ...

"It Times" reporter/Chenfeng (from Beijing) mobile game has aroused the attention of the industry chain, several major domestic operators and mobile game developers on the one hand to increase the development of the new game, on the other hand, also actively establish more non-operator channels.　　But at the terminal level, there are still a lot of problems to be resolved this is a common intellectual property litigation, behind the current mobile phone game developers on the present market frustration. June 22, from the Chinese mobile Game Developers Alliance 6 companies, collectively to the alliance of another member of the Air network launched a lawsuit, ...

Wen/Figure Xu believe that many readers will find that more or less friends around the office or in their spare time to call friends, groups to some specific places to play, and a Go is one night.　　Do not think they go to do some illegal activities, in fact, they are most likely to play the game, or to play a lot of people in the popular desktop games. However, due to desktop games need a specific card or props, but also need about 35 friends together, the key is to find a place to play, all kinds of restrictions so many desktop game enthusiasts ultimately difficult to become ...

Beijing time August 3 afternoon news, according to foreign media reported today, Viacom has its gaming chat and exploration services Xfire sold to Titan Gaming.　　Neither party disclosed the terms of the deal, but Titan Gaming said the Xfire name would continue to be followed and the corresponding services would not be interrupted. Xfire General manager Chris Comus (Chris Kirmse) left a letter on the homepage of the Xfire official website entitled "Team Leave" (group leaving) in Monday ...

Our News (reporter Wang Yijun) COFCO Group recently launched the "Cofco production team" real-time interactive communication game, players can choose from the 11 Cofco products in the selection of one, the challenge of the product "planting, care, harvesting, processing, transportation" of the five game links, so as to understand the production process of the product, each link game according to the characteristics of each product customization　　, and the Product Knowledge Introduction page is set up. In order to let consumers experience the "safety, rest assured, nutrition, health" of the food industry chain, COFCO Group will be able to set the game clearance conditions to a certain degree of difficulty, so that consumers can experience the virtual game through the network of real production ...

A few days ago, Shanda Games Limited held the theme of "Eternal Tower, Gold" the "Eternal Tower" successfully hit the press conference, and to the user to inform the "Eternal Tower" "Pioneer" plug case cracked. Since the first half of 2010, the grand game with the police for its operation of several large network games plug the problem of the joint reorganization action, especially the "eternal Tower" the strongest. In addition to severely punish external users, the role of permanent closure of the plug-in, the Grand game will also point to the source of the plug, the joint departments concerned for its rigorous investigation, aimed at the players ...

The Ministry of Culture denies that the "stealing food game" is banned by the responsible person who said it was misread: no such words, no meeting discussed the game operators said: "Farm game is not without Enlightenment thinking function" Stealing food is just a game form, is we want to deal with, also only may say involves the content rectification Involves the management of the main body of the processing company, it is impossible to say prohibit this game.　　--The Yellow River News Network reported yesterday, the Ministry of Culture and Cultural Marketing department responsible for the rumor.　　"Stealing food" and the Ministry of Culture seem to rub a little spark every year. Following the end of last year, happy Net Farm ...

December 18, NCsoft at the company's headquarters held a "Jian Ling" demo party, inviting more than 70 players to play the game experience.　　During the first time, "Jian Ling" official also disclosed the game boss, and organized a player to conduct a boss war activities. "Jian Ling" boss game video This public boss yellow scarf Guinness only 20 level of player role can challenge, the boss has a huge body and strong offensive and defensive ability, its outstanding performance even to participate in the players were once in trouble. NCsoft related official said: "All along, ...

"Final Fantasy 14" promises that the first of the two patches of December is online. The big patch for the November game was designed to improve the quality of the game, with the patch focused on the forward content while adding new content and monsters.　　Several problems have been solved, and the changes look really big. The most popular interface changes are: The timer that adds the state effect, the increase in the number of chat characters, and the durable display of items. As for content, players who do not want to kill monsters can enjoy the first part of the promised recipe book. A second update based on this update will be available at the end of December ...

The first Indiepub Mobile gaming contest (Indiepub Mobile Games Competition), sponsored by Zoo Entertainment, a video game publisher, announced the list of winning entries, the Android version of the game　　Steambirds "(jointly launched by Spryfox and radial games) won the highest prize. According to the game state to understand that the activities of the selection of this year from July to November entries of the game works, the highest award ...

Recently, WCG official end of the previous WCG2011 competition Project vote, WCG official website also issued a thank-you to all the players vote.　　The full text reads as follows: WCG2011 the most popular game vote has been closed last week, thank you for your strong support. In the most popular 10 games, there have been recent big hot games, such as StarCraft 2: Wings of Freedom, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Call of Duty 7 and Super Street Fighter 4.　　These games were first included in the TOP10 of WCG's most popular games. Voting results ...