One Company Is Dominating Chinese Internet Cafes (Apparently!)

While Chinese Internet cafes are supposedly on the decline, but with a 126 million active players at net cafes across the country it’s easy to see that net cafes are still a major player in the gaming scene of China. Such as it is, it’s always interesting to see what kind of games are being played in the country’s net cafes.

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Despite it being a new year and a new month, we’ll be taking a look at statistics from last month published by Tencent. Tencent, the Chinese gaming giant that I think will one day take over the world, publishes and develops video games among other things. This list might be a bit biased (Tencent did publish it) so please take it with a grain of salt.

League of Legends (英雄联盟)
Developer: Riot Games
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: Massive Online Battle Arena

Cross Fire Online (穿越火线)
Developer: Smile Gate
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: First Person Shooter

Blade and Soul (剑灵)
Developer: NCSoft
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

DNF (Dungeon Fighter Online) (地下城与勇士)
Developer: Nexon
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: Mutliplayer Beat-em Up

QQ Racing (QQ飞车)
Developer: Tencent
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: Racing

Ni Zhan Online (逆战)
Developer: Tencent
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: First Person Shooter

QQ Dancing (QQ炫舞)
Developer: Tencent
Publisher: Tencent
Genre: Dancing/Rhythm

Meng San Guo (梦三国)
Developer: Hangzhou Dianhun
Publisher: Hangzhou Dianhun
Genre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game with MOBA elements

New Journey To The West (新大话西游2)
Developer: NetEase
Publisher: NetEase
Genre: Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game

NBA 2k Online
Developer: 2k Games
Publisher: Tencent
Genre:Sports/ Basketball

Of the above games, eight out of the ten are either developed or operated in China by Tencent. In China online games are often “operated” or published by a publisher. Foreign developed games tend to work in unison with a Chinese developer/publisher to put their games out in China, the best example would be World of Warcraft and NetEase. For example, NetEase is the operator and “distributor” of WoW in China.

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Eric is a Beijing based writer and all around FAT man. You can contact him @[email protected] or follow him on Twitter @FatAsianTechie

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