In a move reminiscent of all those Call of Duty live action ads, PUBG Corp has created a live action trailer for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. This is to commemorate the launch of the two Chinese mobile games and just...wow. I'm honestly s...

While we already knew PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was coming to Chinese mobile devices, it is kind of surprising to learn that there are two variations of the game. While they both bare resemblance to the official PC version, each game se...

Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition was announced during Nintendo's mini-direct yesterday, but not much else was talked about. A vague Spring release window could mean anything, with a release coming as late as June. According to Nintendo H...

While PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds did manage to release in 2017, the game didn't suddenly shed all of its problems. Upon release day last month, there was a problem with the BP (or battle points) system for the game's reward crates. A lot...

Since its inception last July, there have been over twenty episodes of the CGI anime series based on SNK's classic franchise, The King of Fighters. Clearly, producers iDragons Creative have faith in the future, as two more seasons, as well ...

After tackling Feudal Japan, Medieval Times, the Napoleonic Era and Ancient Rome, the Total War series is now looking to the East for its newest entry. Sega and Creative Assembly have announced that Total War: Three Kingdoms will be the lat...

This cat has at least two lives. Mad Catz, a long-time gaming peripheral company that shut down in March 2017, has been improbably resurrected.  Ahead of next week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mad Catz has announced that i...

Well, I didn't want to qualify a new mainline Devil May Cry release like that, but this is happening. According to MMO Culture, Chinese developer Yunchang Game has acquired the rights from Capcom directly to create a Devil May Cry mobi...

For one reason or another, China has banned access to the Steam community forums for all Chinese users. Users in that region can still purchase titles from the Steam storefront, but they won't be able to engage in discussion or utilize any ...

The Chinese market has a long history of snubbing video games. For years, it was actually illegal to sell video game consoles, but now that the restriction has been lifted, newer devices have been able to get released overseas. What does th...

Given the popularity of the battle royale sub-genre and the multitude of knock-offs on mobile devices, it was basically a given that PlayerUnknown and PUBG Corp would eventually port over Battlegrounds to the mobile platform. If you were wo...

Battle royale games might not seem like they'd be the smoothest fit for smartphones, but they do exist, and they stand to make a lot of money right now while the going is good for the genre. To that end, Bluehole and Tencent have plans for ...

There's been speculation about whether PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will release in China and what all it would take to make that happen. Currently, the game is playable in the country through Steam, but it has not been approved by the gov...

For one reason or another, the remake of Shadow Warrior is free on Steam today. Maybe this is to coincide with the release of some new content for Shadow Warrior 2, but either way, you can now experience some nice hard wang for the low...

Announced back at Shanghai's ChinaJoy 2017 gaming event, Monkey King: Hero is Back is officially coming west on PlayStation 4. Based on the movie of the same name (which in turn is based on Journey to the West like everything else...

Announced earlier this year to little fanfare, SNK's King of Fighters CG animated series is now ready for broadcast, and you can watch the first two episodes below.KOF fans will be aware that the series has an incredibly complex (ridiculous...

The initial announcement for Dynasty Warriors 9 only clarified that the game would be releasing on PS4. While that is still true for Japan, Western audiences will be able to partake in the open-world hack-n-slash-athon on PC, PS4, or Xbox O...

Off the top of my head (i.e. without Googling it), I can't think of any major China-made video games despite being the largest video game market on Earth. I keep thinking it's only a matter of time before giants like Tencent, NetEase, and ...

If relationship stereotypes ring true, then odds are you've been dragged to a shopping mall by a spouse or significant other when you would rather be playing video games. Well, the Global Harbor Mall in Shanghai has a solution. They've...

My sources tell me that there are a lot of people in China. At least three, and no less than two. So it isn't surprising to hear that China is continuing to extend its lead as the biggest game market in the world, forecast to grow to a $29 ...

George Takei, of Star Trek fame, and more recently the 2016 musical Allegiance, announced that he would be joining Hong Kong-based gaming company Fifth Journey as creative director.

This week at the Los Angeles Games Conference, experts on the Chinese video game industry spoke to a room of games professionals (and me) about how to find success overseas. "Maybe this panel should be called How to Lose Less in China," sai...

Hollywood made a movie based on Battleship -- of "You sunk my battleship!" fame -- and still made $300 million at the box office (against a $200 million budget), so it's hard to be surprised at absolutely anything that comes out of billion...

It looks like the next timed event in Overwatch won't be Valentine themed, though that still may be something to look forward to in the future. Last night the Overwatch team revealed that the next event will be themed around Chinese Ne...

The Super Nintendo was the most popular console of its generation, and nearly 50 million units were sold worldwide. There's no telling how many of those are still in working condition, but you may want to warm up a CRT television, dig yours...