https://www.scmp.com/rss/501958/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If you’ve ever wondered why mobile games keep pestering players to buy stuff, here’s why. PUBG Mobile, developed by Tencent, has now pulled in more than US$1 billion in revenue, according to Sensor Tower. In August alone, the game made US$160 million, a 540% increase over last year.    Part of that massive jump is down to the Chinese variant, called Game for Peace. The original PUBG Mobile wasn’t allowed to make money from players in China. But when Tencent replaced it with Game for Peace --... https://www.scmp.com/games/how-pubg-mobile-became-billion-dollar-game/article/3030297?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/games/how-pubg-mobile-became-billion-dollar-game/article/3030297?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 25 Sep 2019 16:49:56 +0000 This article originally appeared on ABACUS For most gamers, just getting to the end of a game is enough. But speedrunners are a different sort of gamer. They race to finish a game as quickly as possible, using every trick and glitch to get to the end faster than anyone else. Breaking a speedrun record on any game is difficult. Breaking that record on a game as notoriously hard as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, possibly the world’s hottest game at the moment, is even more so. While an average player... https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029257/notoriously-difficult-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-beaten-under-40?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/abacus/culture/article/3029257/notoriously-difficult-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-beaten-under-40?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:22:52 +0000 For most gamers, just getting to the end of a game is enough. But speedrunners are a different sort of gamer. They race to finish a game as quickly as possible, using every trick and glitch to get to the end faster than anyone else. Breaking a speedrun record on any game is difficult. Breaking that record on a game as notoriously hard as Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, possibly the world’s hottest game at the moment, is even more so. While an average player takes somewhere between 30 hours and 70... https://www.scmp.com/digital-life/notoriously-difficult-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-beaten-under-40-minutes/article/3004344?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/digital-life/notoriously-difficult-sekiro-shadows-die-twice-beaten-under-40-minutes/article/3004344?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:22:52 +0000