China's Shanda Games announced they have appointed Qian Donghai, former senior vice president for business development of Shanda Games, as the new president.

China's Game Industry Annual Conference 2012 was just held in Suzhou and the comprehensive Chinese game industry report for 2012 was released during the conference.

Chinese online game developer and operator Beijing Perfect World Network Technology Company Ltd. announced the establishment of a new subsidiary in Malaysia.

Chinese online game developer and operator Shanda Games and Japanese video game develop Square Enix jointly held a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, to announce that the two parties will implement strategic cooperation in mobile game sector.

Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com, the operator for World of Warcraft in mainland China, have jointly announced that Mists of Pandaria, the fourth expansion of World of Warcraft, will open in mainland China on October 2, 2012, realizing global synchronization for the first time.

Online game company Blizzard Entertainment Inc. says there was unauthorized access to some Battle.net account information, but Chinese players appear unmolested.

Chinese Internet company NetEase.com has a new online game accelerator product named UU, and the company said it will provide the service to users for free.

Chinese social networking giant Tencent has acquired a minority stake in U.S. game company Epic Games.

Chinese tech titans Tencent and Kingsoft will soon begin operating their online games together.

Chinese online game developer and operator Shanda Games has reached an agreement with Trion Worlds to operate its online game Rift in mainland China.

Chinese Internet security software provider Qihoo 360 announced that its 360Safebox software will be integrated into Uuu9.com, a Chinese portal for gaming information.

Information from China Game Industry Annual Conference held in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, revealed that the market scale of the Chinese game industry reached CNY44.61 billion in 2011, a year-on-year increase of 34%.

Chinese online game developer and operator Changyou.com Limited and its majority shareholder Sohu.com Inc. have jointly announced that the two parties have entered into a definitive agreement under which Changyou.com will acquire 17173.com, a leading gaming information portal in China, from Sohu.com for USD162.5 million.

Perfect World Company Limited, an online game developer and operator in China, has formed a new joint venture with Nexon Korea Corporation, a global online entertainment company and publisher of micro-transaction-based massively multiplayer online games, to manage and operate online games in South Korea.

Chinese online game developer and operator has announced that it has invested EUR35 million to acquire a 100% stake in Cryptic Studios, an online game developer owned by Atari.