News Tagged: china

According to a report from WantChina Times, 300 workers at a Foxconn manufacturing plant in Wuhan, China have threatened to throw themselves off the building's roof after a pay dispute earlier this month (thanks Kotaku). It appears that the people who worked on the Xbox 360 assembly line, were not given a pay rise by Foxconn management...

JLM Pacific Epoch offers a follow-up to yesterdey's scoop that Blizzard's World of Warcraft could be banned in China. Quoting "a related NetEase chief," the story incidates that the whole thing regarding potential WoW termination in China is untrue: Word is: "Responding...

Emphasizing the question mark up there, people. Several rumors hint that Blizzard's incredibly popular online game World of Warcraft might be in trouble. Unsubstantiated reports from an unknown blog claim WoW's subscriber base is down to 5 million (from almost 12 million), with Blizzard keeping this a closely guarded secret...

Blizzard Entertainment reveals that their MMORPG World of Warcraft will be licensed to NetEase in mainland China for a term of three years. They've also announced a partnership on Blizzard's Warcraft III, StarCraft II and Battle.net gaming platform last summer...

Chinese gamers are still waiting for Blizzard's MMORPG, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, to launch in their country. Recent reports have shown that certain in-game content was found inappropriate, particularly "a city raid and skeleton characters" (Burning Crusade faced similar issues prior release)...

The already huge Chinese online games market is about to get bigger. Pearl Research revealed the results of a study, which estimates that the online games market in China is going to top $3 billion in 2010. It's been mentioned that "Chinese-themed and advanced casual games are expected to drive revenues in 2008 and beyond...