East beep, west beep, beep, I am Beep.

It’s time for the 3-minute beep to announce the biggest events in the gaming industry this week.

The first thing to beep is: Tencent lost 100 million because of a hoe.

What's going on? On March 23, many Tencent players found themselves unable to log in to the game!

In this regard, Tencent stated that there was a network failure↓↓

In fact, not only Tencent, but also many game companies also encountered network problems.

Later news confirmed that the cause of the network failure was that the construction team dug out the optical fiber...↓↓

The network failure lasted for about 8 hours,

According to Tencent’s 2018 financial report, Tencent’s game revenue for the whole year was 128.4 billion.

The average hourly income exceeded 14 million.

During these 8 hours of disconnection, Tencent had enough Lost more than 100 million!

I can only say that the hoe wife of the construction team is so awesome!

Let’s see how netizens are beeping:

@junyusong: One hundred Q coins, just pretend nothing happened.

@Alisa's rat hole: The chicken kept spinning in circles, couldn't get out of the car, got stuck in the window and couldn't get out... I thought my internet connection was down!

@ The gift of life Nathan: What is the Internet + big data. After all, I can’t do a shovelful of traditional industry!

@草儿草儿: I thought it was a joke, but I didn’t expect it to be true...

The second one to beep is Shanda Games.

Oh no, it has now been renamed "Shengqu Games"——

Starting from March 31, Shanda Games will accompany the domestic online game market all the way.

Will be changed to a new name and brand logo↓↓

This company that has brought classic online games such as Legend, MapleStory, Bubble Hall, and Dragon Nest to domestic players is about to enter the A whole new stage.

What memories do you have with Shanda Games? What do you think of its name change?

Let’s see how netizens are beeping:

@ 3:30 a.m. cdc: Legend, Bubble Hall, MapleStory, and Legend of the World, Heaven, and Dragon that I have played for a few hours Valley. Shanda has been with me for half of my youth.

@llcMaple: I still remember when I was a kid, I went to a dark Internet cafe and two-thirds of the people were playing MapleStory. Shanda really dealt a good hand to himself!

@PureW: The logo looks very similar to LeTV. Is it unlucky?

@suenxin99: Shanda Games was previously separated from Shanda Group and acquired by other companies. After the acquisition, Shanda Games had to pay the Shanda Group a four-character trademark usage fee of Shanda Games every year. This time it is completely free.

The third one to beep is Apple.

This service can be understood as Apple’s monthly game subscription service.

By paying a monthly fee, you can play exclusive games. The number currently reaches hundreds↓↓

At present, the games included in "Apple Amusement" are mainly independent games.

But in the future, we will cooperate with major manufacturers to customize more games, and all of them will have no advertising or in-app purchases.

Apple said that the service is expected to be launched in the fall of 2019. Will you consider joining Apple’s monthly game subscription?

Let’s see how netizens are beeping:

@pengharding: If only the Nintendo family bucket could be brought up... But forget it, just pretend I didn’t say it.

@我是zhouxingyu: Apple Arcade's game style is very similar to that of Switch. The game style is more casual and more casual. It is not tiring to play and will fully occupy your fragmented time.

@罗红雁: Making high-quality games that can compete with Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is a user benefit.

@嗟yu1945: Apple, you abandoned Nintendo, what about the promise of falling in love with each other?

Finally, let’s talk about the poison in the game industry... Oh no, the big game manufacturer EA.

Recently, EA announced that it will lay off approximately 350 employees, accounting for 4% of the total number of employees.

The laid off employees are mainly from the marketing, distribution and operations departments.

EA’s CEO also said that the company will also reduce its business in Japan and Russia.

What’s noteworthy is that this layoff is EA’s largest layoff since 2013.

Since the second half of last year, EA's stock price has been falling.

From nearly $150 last summer to about $100 now.

Despite the support of games like "APEX", EA's future is obviously still full of uncertainties.

Let’s see how netizens are beeping:

@泽元张: 348 of them are members of the "Anthem" team, and the remaining two are recruited by the "Anthem" project team HR (manual dog head)

@Head can release circles: I beg you to put more thought into anti-cheating, just forget about apex being hot. The battlefield is full of violence.

@JS bacterial 0_Master: Can you use another engine? Don't act like a fool, fix your anti-cheating system, and keep taking jujube pills like this.

@时时CLF: It all depends on APEX to support the scene, otherwise EA will be even worse this year!