Chinese Internet and online game firm NetEase.com Inc. says its total revenues for the second quarter of 2010 was CNY1.3 billion as it announced its unaudited financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2010.

Chinese telecom operator China Telecom has published a report stating that it will recruit core cooperative partners for its online mobile phone application store.

Chinese wireless value-added services firm KongZhong Corporation announced that it is planning to buy Simlife International Inc., a mobile game developer in China.

Shanda Online Holdings Limited has forged a strategic cooperation with Chinese online game company LineKong Entertainment Technology Company Ltd.

According to a Sina.com news report that quotes an unnamed insider, the Chinese online game operator The9 and the U.S. game company Blizzard Entertainment failed to reach an agreement for The9 to continue to hold the operating rights of World of Warcraft in China.

According to the latest report on Chinese online game users published by the China Internet Network Information Center, the number of online game players in China has reached 55.5 million, but many are considered low-end players.

According to Frank Kwok Leung, president of the Chinese online game platform Ourgame, the company is currently discussing with the Chinese online game operator Shanda about their cooperation in joint operation of online games and an agreement is expected to be signed at the end of this month.

According to the latest statistics published by China's General Administration of Press and Publication, China's Internet game publication industry achieved actual sales of CNY18.38 billion in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 76.6%, and it brought CNY47.84 billion direct income to China's telecommunications and technology industries.

Chinese online game developer and operator Perfect World Company Ltd. announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, and has proven that its business model is currently not feeling so many the strains of the global financial crisis, though it did post a quarterly net income fall.

According to Hou Xiaoqiang, CEO of Shanda Literature, the company plans to start a lawsuit against Google to push the global search engine towards better transparency and a higher sense of corporate social responsibility.

Chinese online game firm Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited has released its unaudited consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2008, in which it shows upswings in revenue and net income.

Chinese online game, security and software provider Kingsoft has set up a new workshop named Rainbow, which is the company's seventh game development workshop.

Chinese online game developer Shanda Interactive Entertainment Limited has partnered with a local Chinese company for a new gaming service.

Chinese online game developer The9 Limited announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, and showed that net income plummeted by 55% from the previous quarter due to an impairment charge.

Chinese online game operator Giant Interactive Group has announced plans to start an overall salary increase, in which the average increase rate of all employees is 14% and the highest can reach 30%.