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Since its launch in 2024, Delta Force continues to attract 30 million video game players daily. Photo: Handout
Video gaming

Tencent’s hit title Delta Force prompts sharpened focus on shooting games

Tencent executives see a change in tastes among domestic gamers, which has prompted a push to invest more in shooting titles.

Esports

Stanley Ho’s youngest son Mario leads first listed Chinese company in esports

Esports

Stanley Ho’s youngest son Mario prepares for China’s first esports IPO in the US

Sony

Fortnite maker Epic gets US$2 billion from Sony, Lego owner

Sony and Lego owner Kirkbi each invested US$1 billion into Epic, bringing its valuation to US$31.5 billion.

Epic Games’ Fortnite is a popular battle royale game across multiple platforms, including mobile and dedicated gaming consoles like Sony’s PlayStation. Photo: Dreamstime/TNS
Art

‘There won’t be shoot-outs’: Fortnite video game hosts show of art by Kaws

Fortnite is holding an in-game exhibition of Kaws’ works in a replica of London’s Serpentine Gallery; at the same time, the gallery is hosting his art in real life and in augmented reality.

Video gaming

Roblox, Epic Games’ setbacks in China indicate a splintered metaverse

Metaverse, seen by some people as the next iteration of the internet, could look very different in China than the rest of the world, said analysts.

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Apple

Fortnite creator Epic Games to appeal ruling in Apple antitrust case

US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers mostly sided with Apple, rejecting Epic’s claims that the iPhone maker is a monopoly.

The Fortnite display, presented by Epic Games at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in June 2018. Photo: TNS
Apple

Apple’s App Store dealt major blow by judge in Epic antitrust case

US court orders tech giant to let developers steer consumers to external payment methods for mobile apps.

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South Korea

South Korean lawmakers vote to curb Google, Apple commission

Politicians are considering an amendment of the Telecommunications Business Act, or ‘Anti-Google law’, which takes aim at app store operators with dominant market positions.

Apple

Judge pores over Apple’s app store rules as Epic Games trial ends

US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has indicated she would like to promote more competition, but without dismantling Apple’s commission system.

Epic Games, creator of the popular video game Fortnite, has been trying to prove that Apple’s app store fees are the price-gouging tool of a monopoly. Photo: Reuters
Apple

Apple store would be toxic mess without control, CEO tells Epic Games trial

Tim Cook defended the company’s tight grip on its online marketplace in a high-stakes case brought by the creator of Fortnite.

Apple CEO Tim Cook attends an event in New York in October 2019. Photo: AP
Apple

Apple, Fortnite developer Epic come out swinging in first day of trial

Epic Games alleges that Apple’s App Store has left users and developers ‘trapped’ in an anticompetitive marketplace.

Apple

Fortnite maker set for epic court fight with Apple over its App Store

Apple booted Fortnite from its online mobile marketplace last year after Epic released an update that dodged revenue sharing with the iPhone maker.

Apps

‘Chaotic, but a lot of fun’: gamer chat app Discord’s communities

Microsoft is in talks to acquire Discord, a video game chat app, for US$10 billion as the software giant shops for assets that would provide access to thriving communities of users.

Microsoft is in talks to acquire Discord, a video game chat app, for US$10 billion. Photo: Bloomberg
Video gaming

Fortnite’s Gen Z gamers feel socially cut off after Apple removes app

Fortnite, which has some 350 million players, has been a lifeline to the outside world for kids trapped at home during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The popular video game Fortnite by Epic Games. Photo: Reuters
Video gaming

Why Fall Guys is the perfect game for the coronavirus age

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout has been the hit of this summer, with more than two million players buying it since its August 4 release. Here’s why. Plus three other games worth playing.

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Video gaming

Call of Duty takes on free-to-play Fortnite at its own game

Fortnite and other free-to-play video games dominate the US$120 billion digital games market. Call of Duty is entering the battle with a massive open world battle royale game that is free to play online.

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Mobile gaming

EA is still making an Apex Legends mobile game with a Chinese partner

Apex Legends was a huge hit in China, and Electronic Arts has been planning to bring the popular battle royale title to mobile for a year

Apex Legends was once so popular in China that Western gamers complained that it was filled with Chinese cheats, bots and advertisers. (Picture: Electronic Arts)
TikTok

Fortnite teams up with TikTok to create an official dancing emote

Fortnite will select one dance shared on ByteDance’s TikTok with a contest-specific hashtag and turn it into a dancing emote in the game

Honour of Kings

Fortnite is 2019’s top-grossing game despite making no money in China

Tencent is still waiting for the Chinese government’s permission to monetize the two-year-old battle royale shooter

Mobile gaming

From Minecraft to Fortnite, how video games evolved in the 2010s

Gaming is the No.1 entertainment now, and the past decade saw milestone developments in storytelling and in-game elements. These are the titles that had the most impact in the 2010s.

Gaming is now humanity’s favourite form of entertainment, and in the past decade it has achieved several milestones with its wide array of games. Photo: Shutterstock
Tencent

Fortnite and NBA2K Online 2 are now on Tencent's cloud gaming service START

Tencent partners with Nvidia for START, a platform focusing on distributing PC and console games

It looks like FIFA Online 4, QQ Dance and Dance Age will be the next to join START. (Picture: Tencent)
Overwatch

Overwatch wins China lawsuit over game clones

Shanghai court fines makers of Heroes of Warfare and another Chinese game for copying Blizzard’s blockbuster shooter

United States

American teen wins US$3 million at Fornite video game tournament

Kyle Giersdorf, 16, was one of dozens competing for US$30 million in total prize money at the Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York on Sunday.

Music

Music industry takes aim at ‘Fortnite’ online game over song royalties

Changes to European copyright laws have potentially opened the door for online gaming to be a source of music royalty revenue for the first time.

People playing Fortnite at DreamHack Atlanta 2018. Photo: AFP
Video gaming

China now has game that merges Pokémon Go and CryptoKitties into one

In the Tencent title, players can cruise around streets to catch virtual monsters, while rearing and trading cartoon kittens stored on a blockchain.

Screenshot from Tencent's augmented reality game Let's Hunt Monsters, where players can cruise around streets and catch hundreds of virtual monsters, much like in Pokemon GO. Photo: Screenshot
Video gaming

The great video game shake-up: a new world of experimentation

From streaming games to new subscription services to – gasp – not paying for new costumes and other extras, it’s all change in video game land, where new entrants like Google and Apple are introducing ideas not seen before.

Video gaming

China’s game approvals back on but poker and mahjong are out

The world’s biggest gaming market was once full of low-budget poker games

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