This column is produced by Game Daily, which mainly covers hot events in the game industry chain and related content related to the future trend of the industry. This article is Issue 424.
01 Game products
【Tianma Space-time layoffs of nearly 20%】Palm Fun Technology received a letter of concern from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange after releasing the 2021 performance forecast, and recently issued an announcement in response, mentioning the 2021 performance of its subsidiaries (unannounced):
Tianma space-time profit - 19 million yuan, mainly invested 80 million yuan in research and development, plans to launch key product test data in August is not up to expectations, canceled Tencent agency and overseas distribution plans. Since November, Tianma Space-Time has begun to streamline personnel, with a 20% decrease at the end of the year compared with the beginning of the year; the profit of Play Crab Technology is -10 million yuan, mainly due to the long revenue period of SLG products; and the upstream information profit is 21 million yuan.
[Giant Network repurchases shares of not less than 500 million yuan] Giant Network issued an announcement that it intends to spend 500 million to 1 billion yuan to repurchase shares. In addition, in response to investors' questions, Giant Network mentioned that the various test data of the self-developed mobile game "Super Sus" in Southeast Asia have reached expectations, and will continue to adjust and optimize in the future.
["Shaoqian: The Producer of the Realm" left] The producer of the product "Shaoqian: The Realm" of the Scattered Explosion Network was left by the explosion, and the project was temporarily frozen due to problems with the version number and production. According to external sources, there is no special problem and it is a peaceful resignation.
[Harry Potter: Magical Awakening" European and American clothes launched this year] Warner Bros. released a promotional video for "Harry Potter: Magical Awakening", which is scheduled to be launched in Europe and the United States this year. This card product developed by NetEase is one of the phenomenal products in 2021, so NetEase Zen Studio was promoted to the business department, and the person in charge Jin Tao was promoted to the president of the business department.
Game Daily found that "Three Kingdoms Kill" has now been removed from the Steam platform, after its praise rate was only 7%, and it took only one week to become the worst-rated game on the platform. After the takedown of "Three Kingdoms Kill", Konami's "Efootball" returned to the top position in the bad review list.
02 Esports Circle
The Turkish SMB team announced its dissolution because the PUBG officially gave 8 e-sports clubs in Europe a direct invitation place for multiple competitions, and they thought they were trying to cooperate but were not invited.
03 Former universe
YouTube's chief product officer elaborated on the company's development plan for meta-universe and blockchain in 2022, saying that new technologies can allow creators and fans to establish deeper relationships, and will turn the virtual world into reality for users to watch in the future.
Modern Communications announced that it has changed its name to Meta Media Holdings Limited, which is now the symbol of Meta universe, and its stock price has risen by more than 8% due to this change.
Neil Stephenson, author of "Avalanche", known as the father of the metasymology, said in an interview that the ultimate winner of the metacosm is the company that can provide products and services, and opening the metacosm is a risk.
[Summoners Arena completes $3 million financing] Placed RPG-like blockchain game Summoners Arena completed a $3 million seed round of financing, this p2e product has two ways to play PVE and PVP, and the top players on the leaderboard can get token rewards.
04 Tide play blind box
According to the game daily chao play channel, the country's limited 1,000 models of golden dun dun have all been sold, and the last one is priced at 120,000, and the buyer is a Henan person.
【Winter Olympics theme blind box 1 day rushed to the 4th place in the best-selling list】China Ice and Snow Organizing Committee authorized the "Divine Craftsman" team to create a set of "ice dolls, snow dolls" blind boxes, including 14 regular modeling hand-made and 1 hidden modeling hand-made, the probability of hidden models is 1:112, and it took only one day to rush to the 4th place in the Tmall blind box hot list after being listed.