Faster than "Diablo Immortal"? The public beta date of Korean Dark "Thirteenth Month" is confirmed

The multi-platform dark style action RPG "undecember" (previously called "Ember of Doom") developed by the Korean game company NEEDS GAMES was officially announced this week. The game will be put into public beta on January 13, 2022 and supports Simplified Chinese.

The game is a multi-platform game that supports PC and mobile terminals, that is, a mobile game like "Genshin Impact". The disadvantage of this kind of game is that the quality is naturally slightly lower than that of PC games, but the advantages are It can be experienced on a portable basis, and the gameplay will be much more refined than pure mobile games.

"Tower of Fantasy" was in open beta on the 16th, and it was officially announced that the first day sales exceeded 50 million

"Tower of Fantasy", which launched its open beta on December 16th, quickly became the top free game on all major platforms. On the 17th, Perfect World officially announced that the first-day sales of "Phantom Tower" exceeded 50 million.

Make history! Six days after the public beta date, the server of "The Last Oath" has finally been launched, and the first-day sales are expected to be around 1 million.

The mobile game "The Last Oath" produced by NetDragon and represented by Bilibili launched on December 15 The server is officially launched and running stably. Excluding the previous large-scale official compensation of diamonds and lottery tickets, the turnover of the game still exceeded 1 million on the 15th, which shows that the game is still very popular among 2D players.

Tencent QQ Hall will cease operations in April next year. It has been online for 17 years

Tencent game "QQ Hall" issued a suspension announcement. Due to the strategic plan of the "QQ Hall" project team, it is now It was officially announced that "QQ Hall" will cease operations in mainland China on April 20, 2022. "QQ Hall" will close the game server at 11:00 on April 20, 2022, and players will not be able to log in to the game normally. This game has been online for 17 years.

Tencent App Store will upgrade the “OPEN Official Website”

Recently, Tencent App Store has completely upgraded the “OPEN Official Website” (Tencent Application Open Platform). According to reports, the newly upgraded OPEN official website streamlines and modularizes the access to new games/new mobile apps; the platform also links Tencent’s major resources and capabilities to provide developers with full life cycle information for developing a game/app. required capabilities and services. This upgrade is under internal testing. Developers can contact the Yongyingbao business manager in their region to apply for experience qualifications and provide suggestions.

Giant Network applied for the Metaverse trademark of Ball Battle

Tianyancha App shows that recently, Shanghai Giant Network Technology Co., Ltd. applied to register multiple metaverse-related trademarks, including "Ball." "Battle Metaverse", "Metaverse SUPER SUS", "Party Metaverse", "Emoji Metaverse", etc. The international categories include educational entertainment, scientific instruments, etc. The current trademark status is under application. "Ball Battle" is a mobile online game independently developed by Giant Network's Superpop & Lollipop studio.

Game overseas performance is outstanding and the market space is vast

On December 15, the 2021 China Game Industry Annual Conference was held in Guangzhou. At the Game Overseas and Communication Forum, participating experts revealed that the actual overseas sales revenue of my country’s independently developed games achieved double-digit growth this year. Overseas markets have a large potential for revenue growth. According to agency forecasts, the potential scale of domestic games overseas will reach US$69.1 billion (equivalent to RMB 439.8 billion) in 2024, which is 4.5 times the scale of overseas revenue in 2020.

Tencent: The proportion of domestic gaming time for minors dropped to 0.7% in September

"2021 China Game Industry Annual Conference Minors Protection Sub-Forum and the Implementation of New Anti-Addiction Regulations press conference" was held.

Zheng Lei, head of Tencent’s unprotected system, said that as of November, an average of 6.86 million accounts triggered face recognition during the login process every day, and more than 70% of the accounts were included in anti-addiction supervision because they refused or failed to pass verification. In September, Tencent’s domestic minors’ gaming time share dropped to 0.7%, compared with 6.4% in the same period last year. Game turnover ratio dropped to 1.1%, compared with 4.8% in the same period last year.

Sensor Tower: MiHoYo's "Genshin Impact" mobile terminal overseas revenue increased by 60.5% month-on-month in November

The latest data from the Sensor Tower store intelligence platform shows that due to the new phase of characters in early November With the update of event prayers and the launch of version 2.3 at the end of the month, the overseas revenue of MiHoYo's "Genshin Impact" mobile terminal increased by 60.5% month-on-month in this issue, returning to the top of the overseas mobile game revenue list. Tencent’s “PUBG Mobile” revenue from Turkey accounted for 21.8%, surpassing the United States for the first time and becoming the game’s highest revenue market. Driven by the Double 11 promotion, the revenue of Mutong Technology’s “Endless Showdown” increased by 21.6% month-on-month in November, and its ranking moved up 6 places to 7th.

Tencent’s post-90s programmer Mao Xingyun passed away. Tencent: It has achieved high performance in the past few years

It was learned from Tencent that Mao Xingyun died unexpectedly on the morning of December 11. Tencent stated that out of respect for the wishes of the family and the deceased, it is temporarily unable to disclose more relevant information, and will follow up on the premise of fully respecting the wishes of the family. At the same time, Tencent said that Nebula has always been very good, has outstanding professional capabilities, and has achieved high performance in the past few years. Mao Xingyun’s personal information on Maimai shows that he worked for Tencent IEG Tianmei Studio Group as a game engine development engineer from June 2015 to February 2021; since February this year, he has worked for Tencent Interactive Entertainment Tianmei Room group, serving as the leader of the engine team.

Alibaba has added a number of employee care systems

Alibaba has announced a number of "heart-warming plans" for employee care on its intranet, including a number of employee welfare upgrades - in addition to It took the lead in responding to the national call to extend maternity leave and add childcare leave, and also introduced 7 days of fully paid companionship leave and 20 days of fully paid long-term service leave. At the same time, it also added transportation subsidies to advocate green off-peak travel and increase employees’ collective outing expenses. standard. In addition, Alibaba will also pilot a flexible office system, allowing employees to freely choose their office location for up to one day a week.