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As Niko predicted, China’s Min of Culture is increasing its scrutiny of SNS games, such as Happy Farm and its clones
4:24 PM Dec 18th
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It’s a matter of time before China’s GAPP & MOC regulate social games like other online games this year. Just wait
7:06 AM Dec 15th
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Saw a report that said Shenzhen plans to nearly quadruple its i-café licenses, 948 to 3,500. Shows that i-café license ban is very relaxed
12:43 PM Dec 11th
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Chinese govt shut BTCHINA (bit torrent site) for no license. Biggest site
for illegal PC game downloads
6:53 PM Dec 10th
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DigiChina, the MOC conf in Beijing, praised Chinese game developers & awarded many for innovation such as Giant for working on “green games”
6:51 PM Dec 10th
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Congrats to The9 for shifting from dependent on WoW to in-house devt. The9 licensed WOF to Neowiz in Korea, a milestone
2:55 PM Dec 4th
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Do recent bans on online games based on their content (China, Australia, Venezuela) worry US publishers?
7:47 PM Dec 1st
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China Game Industry Annual Conf in Beijing 12/1. Not as popular
as China Joy, but it is MOC sponsored so this year it might be important.
9:10 PM Nov 24th
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Too bad: no reported convo between Obama & Hu on IP protection/digital entertainment software during Obama’s visit
9:00 PM Nov 18th
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No matter how many Chinese online operators get their licenses revoked/renewed by MOC, top 15 account most of revenue
7:58 PM Nov 16th
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NCSoft’s huge rev and profit growth b/c of Aion’s global launch proves that Asian biz models are in demand worldwide
3:06 PM Nov 11th
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Another copy of a casual game (Happy Farm) drags hope from
foreign devs wanting to license one in China for $$
9:46 PM Nov 9th
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We were thinking the same: Disney Shanghai is a hit to HK Disneyland, but shows how big China's consumer market is
8:47 PM Nov 6th
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China’s Ministry of Culture announced 188 online games that are being illegally operated/have illegal content (regarding the GAPP conflict)
8:18 PM Nov 4th
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Niko believes NetEase must comply w/ GAPP’s request for WoW to cease operations ( b/c GAPP might end up w/ authority
3:15 PM Nov 2nd
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Inclusion of non-Latin character scripts in domain names may foster growth of Net usage - online game usage in China
2:26 PM Oct 30th
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A curious article about a Shanda subsidiary trying to control the gender of the avatar of a registered male gamer
6:39 PM Oct 28th
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Our clients have had this info, but in Sep. Niko revised our online games rev forecast for China in 2009 to reach $3.65B (previously $3.8B)
8:11 PM Oct 26th
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The GAPP plans to start inspections - companies w/ net licenses may not publish/operate games w/o specific licenses
6:31 PM Oct 9th
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We are politely correcting the article saying the base for consoles in China is 2-3 mil. That was '08 grey market sales
9:05 PM Oct 7th
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- Name Lisa Hanson
- Location Silicon Valley and Shanghai
- Web http://www.nikopa...
- Bio Since 2003 Niko Partners has been the leading provider of market intelligence for China's video game industry, most notably online games and Chinese gamers.
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