Chinese online game developer and operator The9 has announced with smartphone maker Sony Ericsson that starting this month The9 will be the exclusive operator and technical supporter for Sony Ericsson's PlayNow application store in China.

Chinese Internet company Tencent has gained the rights to operate Blade & Soul, a new online game developed by the South Korean company NCsoft, on the Chinese mainland.

Chinese online game developer and operator The9 has announced that it has reached an agreement with Walt Disney Company (Shanghai) to distribute game contents that include Disney cartoon characters on the Chinese mainland.

Months after reporting sliding revenues and losing valuable relationships, Chinese online game company The9 is trying to rejuvenate itself via a deal to invest in mobile startups.

Chinese online game operator The9 Limited is ending operations for one of its games.

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has announced that it plans to introduce the game-oriented social networking site OpenFeint into the Chinese market before the end of 2010.

U.S.-based Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com, the licensed operator for Blizzard's massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Chinese mainland, have jointly announced that the new WoW expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, will be formally launched on the Chinese mainland on August 31, 2010.

There was bad news from Chinese online game developer The9 Limited as it announced its unaudited financial results for the quarters ended March 31 and June 30, 2010, respectively.

Chinese online game developer and operator The9 has reached a strategic partnership with Sony Online Entertainment and will become the exclusive operator for SOE's 3D leisure community online game "Free Realms" on the Chinese mainland.

Chinese online gaming firm The9 has made a strategic minority equity investment in Aurora Feint Inc., an American mobile game developer.

Days after Chinese online game developer and operator The9's president announced her departure from the helm of the company, the company has now gone ahead with plans for expansion with the acquisition of an American company.

Chinese online game developer The9 Limited announced that its president will not have her employment contract extended.

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The9, a struggling online game developer in China, has reached an agreement with South Korea's Neowiz to allow Neowiz to exclusively operate The9's game World of Fighter in South Korea.

The game seems almost over for Chinese online entertainment and game company The9 Limited as its newly-announced unaudited financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, show a net revenue decrease of 91%.

Proving that Internet business models in China can come and go at the whim of a Chinese government agency, a new government edict states NetEase.com has no authority to operate the World of Warcraft and the company should immediately stop charging users to play the game.

A law firm in the United States is going after Chinese online gaming firm The9 in a new class action lawsuit claiming that The9's executives made inaccurate statements about the company's financial situation.

Feeding an appetite in the West for Chinese Internet company stocks, a new initial public offering is ready to ignite.

Not operating the World of Warcraft online game in China has hit The9 with a CNY79.2 million net loss in the second quarter ended June 30, 2009.

Chinese online game company The9 Limited has entered into an agreement with Taiwan's Userjoy Technology Company Ltd. for an exclusive license to operate Kingdom Heroes 2 Online, a 3D massively multiplayer online role playing game, in mainland China.

According to a representative from the General Administration of Press and Publication of China, the content examination of World of Warcraft has been completed and GAPP now allows NetEase.com to start beta test of the game from July 30, 2009.

The bad news has not stopped for Chinese online gaming firm The9 Limited, as the company has now filed a Form 12b-25 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission regarding the late filing of its annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2008.

The Chinese "one-trick pony" online game operator The9 has confirmed that it will cut 300 employees who previously worked on the operation of World of Warcraft game.

According to reports in local Chinese media, Chinese online game operators The9 and Kingsoft have reached a cooperation to jointly operate JX3 Online, an online game developed by Kingsoft.

CEO of NetEase.com William Ding and CEO of Blizzard Entertainment Mike Morhaime have jointly issued a public letter to the Chinese users of Blizzard Entertainment's online game World of Warcraft, saying that the game's new operator in Chinese mainland, NetEase.com, will open the first batch of its servers in late June 2009 and the remaining [...]

According to information from Shanghai's court website, Chinese online game operator The9 is targeting the American game developer Blizzard Entertainment in two lawsuits which involve property loss compensation and commercial defamation, respectively.

Chinese online game and portal operator NetEase.com has recently reported the latest transition situation of World of Warcraft and said that upon the completion of the transition, non-activated recharge cards of the game will be expired.

Market research firm Analysys International has published its report on China's online game market in the first quarter of 2009, which states the revenue of China's online game market reached CNY5.514 billion, an increase of 8.3% compared with the previous quarter.

The rumors have proven true: Blizzard Entertainment Inc. is not renewing its online game contract in China with The9, choosing instead to move the World of Warcraft game to a subsidiary of Chinese Web portal NetEase.com.

According to various local Chinese media reports, the two Chinese leading online game operators The9 and Shanda may jointly operator a webgame named Jiu Zhou Zhan Ji.