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 465.
01 Game industry
【Game version number re-issued】 The official website of the Copyright Department officially released the latest batch of game version numbers! Since August last year, it has been suspended for 8 months, and a total of 45 editions have been released this time, all of which were approved on April 8. These include "Party Star" of Heartbeat Network, "Sword Net 3: Origins" of Xishanju, "Zero Relic" of Suzhou Fun Friends (Friendship Time), "Sand town time" of Pasia Technology, "Three Kingdoms of Youth: Pocket Battle", Lilith "Life Party", "Beware of Fire Candles", "Above All Things: Awakening", Thunder Game "Tower Hunter" and so on.
Giant Network Launches Helicopter to Help Shanghai Fight The Epidemic Recently Launched the Company's Helicopter and Airlifted Some Shanghai Nucleic Acid Samples to Zhejiang to Accelerate Testing.
Hero Games sends epidemic prevention packages to Shanghai employees Hero Games announced that it will provide epidemic prevention packages for employees of companies in Shanghai, including vegetables, fruits, meat, etc., and deliver them to their communities.
【Glacier Network 2021 two product revenue is less than expected】 Glacier Network announced the 2021 performance express, the total net profit attributable to the shares of 62.8 million yuan, the report mentioned that one of the reasons for the decline is "increased "Expedition 2 Mobile Game" in the domestic market, "Face War" in the overseas market advertising, but the income is less than expected."
【Kaiying Network and VR game producer joint venture to establish a new company】 Shanghai Kaisheng Network, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kaiying Network, and Fantasy Technology (Jiashan) jointly established Shanghai Chenyi Network, a new company or main research VR game direction. Mirage Technology (Jiashan) is a VR/AR/MR game and H5 game content developer, and its founder Pan Feng was the general manager of Virtuos.
data.ai (formerly known as App Annie) announced the list of the top 30 Chinese game manufacturers and applications in March, of which Mihayou reached the top with the performance of "Original God" in Japan, the United States and other places, the top five of the list are Mihayou, FunPlus, Tencent, 37 Interactive Entertainment and Lilith.
Take-Two is selling $2.7 billion in senior notes to raise funds for the acquisition of social gaming company Zynga. Take-Two announced a $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga in January, the highest-grossing acquisition in the history of the gaming industry, but only lasted about a week before it was broken by Microsoft's acquisition of Blizzard.
【Cocos Announces Completion of $50 Million Financing】 Cocos Announced completion of $50 million in financing, with investors being Jianxin Trust, GGV Capital, VoiceNet Agora, etc. This round of financing will be used to upgrade the core technology of the engine and further integrate with scenarios such as games, automobiles, XR, and architectural engineering design.
02 Esports Circle
[E-sports player Uzi was suggested to be the image ambassador of cultural tourism] A proposal appeared on the website of the CPPCC in Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, suggesting that LOL professional Uzi serve as the image ambassador of local cultural tourism, because the development of the e-sports field is extremely hot, and Uzi is a player with high influence in the field of e-sports.
【CFPL S19 Finals Announced postponement】 The official blog of the Crossfire Event issued an announcement that in order to do a good job in epidemic prevention, after communicating with the two final teams of the CFPL S19 Finals, it was decided to postpone the date of the Finals by one day and postpone it to April 17.
03 Former universe
Japanese gaming giant Sega said it may include cloud technology and NFT in its "Super Game" program. The plan was revealed in May last year, and it is expected to invest 100 billion yen (equivalent to 5.081 billion yuan) in the next five years, spend three years to inventory dormant IP, and release super games in five years.
[Netstone subsidiary cooperates with online comic platform to develop blockchain] A subsidiary of South Korean mobile game company Netshi announced the signing of a strategic partnership with online comic platform Kidari Studio, and Netstone subsidiary will use various IP owned by the latter to develop corresponding games and meta-universe content.