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April 6: Heartbeat Company acquires back-end cloud service providers.Heartbeat Company (2400.HK) has recently completed the acquisition of LeanCloud. Xindong is a well-known mobile game developer and publisher, which owns TapTap, the largest mobile game community in China. LeanCloud is a company established in 2014 to provide tools, platforms and services for various application developers. LeanCloud’s products are used in its self-developed and agent’s well-known games, such as playing Polly, Sausage Party, Human Falling Dream, Muse Dash and so on.

April 6: PUBG developers plan to submit an IPO application in April.According to 36kr report, Krafton, the game developer of Jedi Survival invested by Tencent Holdings, will submit an IPO application in April. In February of this year, Krafton officially announced the Jedi survival mobile game 2 "Pubg New State", and the gameplay of this mobile game is also based on the shooting type of "Jedi Survival".

Krafton Group’s predecessor was Bluehole, and Bluehole’s most famous successful games were TERA, a popular PC online game released in 2013, and PUBG released globally in 2017.　　 　

Three years after the publication of PUBG, Krafton’s revenue in the first quarter of this year has reached 500 billion won (about 2.9 billion RMB), relying on PUBG Mobile and Peace Elite, which were developed by Tencent after being authorized by PUBG, to achieve great success in the global and China markets. In terms of revenue ranking, Krafton is currently the fourth largest game company in South Korea.

April 6th: The development of animation games was added to the business scope of Cool Dog.Tianyancha App shows that a number of industrial and commercial changes have taken place in Guangzhou Cool Dog Computer Technology Co., Ltd., a cool dog affiliated company, and the business scope has added "animation game development; Digital content production services (excluding publishing); Internet live broadcast services (excluding news and information services, online performances, online audio-visual programs), etc. At the same time, Huang Dewei and Hu Min quit the main staff and added Wang Hua.

April 6: Bytes indicate that it is illegal for the Indian government to freeze accounts.According to a document seen by Reuters, ByteDance told an Indian court that it was illegal for Indian authorities to freeze their bank accounts in order to investigate "tax evasion", which was tantamount to harassment. According to previous reports, in mid-March, the Indian tax intelligence department ordered ByteDance to freeze the accounts of Citibank and HSBC in Mumbai, saying that the company’s subsidiary in India was "suspected of tax evasion". ByteDance has challenged this in a court in Mumbai. Two people familiar with the matter said that due to the freezing of accounts, none of the employees of ByteDance Indian Company got their salary in March. The company told the court that it has 1,335 employees, including outsourced personnel.　　 　

April 6: Sony and NBA 2k reach a strategic cooperation.Sony Interactive Entertainment and the organizer of NBA 2K League announced that they have reached a strategic partnership, and PS5 will become the official designated machine of NBA 2K League. Steven Roberts, vice president of global e-sports of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said that players can also expect to see a series of exclusive production content jointly launched by both parties, which will be broadcast in the middle of the event.

April 6th: Tencent shares in the developer of Greedy Cave.. Enterprise search App shows that Chengdu Awalong Technology Co., Ltd. has undergone industrial and commercial changes, with new shareholders Linzhi Tencent Investment Management Co., Ltd. and Xiamen Novell Heyue Venture Capital Partnership (limited partnership), and the registered capital has changed from 1 million yuan to 1,111,111 yuan, with an increase of 11.11%. Enterprise investigation shows that Chengdu Avalon Technology Co., Ltd. is a startup company specializing in Android/iOS game development. It was established in June 2013, and its legal representative is Luo Yang. Its business scope includes computer software and hardware technology research and development, technical consultation, technology transfer and technical services.

April 7: Apple is accused of benefiting from illegal apps.According to foreign media AppleInsider, Apple has recently been subjected to a class action lawsuit, and this time it was accused of profiting from illegal gambling apps in its App Store. The complaint pointed out that "spending money on games to win more game time violates" the anti-gambling laws of at least 25 States, and they are seeking class actions in these 25 States.

April 7: The game of Stack Paper was taken off the shelf.According to this report, the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the Notice on the List of Apps Infringed on Users’ Rights and Interests, in which it was reported that 60 apps had not been rectified according to the requirements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology would remove these 60 apps. It is reported that the games removed from the shelves involve many beautiful games, such as Fishing with a Thousand Guns, Warm Travel around the World with overlapping papers, Ice and Snow Retro, which is fun for three or nine years, and Dance Together, which is fun for heroes.

April 7: India rejects the request to unfreeze the account in bytes.India had previously frozen ByteDance’s bank accounts in Citibank and HSBC on the grounds that online advertising transactions between ByteDance India Company and its Singaporean parent company TikTok Pte Ltd were suspected of tax evasion. Fearing that this will affect the company’s business, ByteDance has submitted an application to the court to unfreeze the account. According to Reuters local time reported on April 6th, the Indian Mumbai High Court rejected ByteDance’s request to unfreeze his bank account.

April 7: Ubisoft acquires anti-plug-in software FairFight.According to the news released by i3D.net, a subsidiary of Ubisoft, Ubisoft acquired GameBlocks, the development company of anti-plug-in software FairFight. The specific acquisition amount is unknown, and the transaction was completed on March 31st. GameBlocks was established in 2012, and developed FairFight anti-plug-in software, which is currently used in Rainbow Six: Siege, and EA’s Battlefield 1 and Titan Fall have also been used before.

April 8: The power of examination and approval of domestic online game pilots was delegated to Hainan.Official website, the National Development and Reform Commission of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the NDRC), issued the Opinions of the Ministry of Commerce of the NDRC on Several Special Measures to Support the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port and Relax Market Access. It is mentioned that, with the consent of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, we will support Hainan to develop Internet prescription drug sales, support the innovative development of domestic high-end medical equipment in Hainan, support the development of securities, insurance, funds and other industries in Hainan, and encourage the development of online game industry.

April 8: Mihayou entered the top three revenue rankings of mobile phone publishers.Sensor Tower released the latest report, which brought the revenue ranking of China mobile game publishers in the global App Store and Google Play in March 2021. Tencent, Netease and Miha travel in the top three. According to the report, in March 2021, a total of 37 China mobile game manufacturers were shortlisted in the TOP100 mobile game publishers’ income list, with a total income of more than 2.29 billion US dollars, accounting for 39.6% of the global TOP100 mobile game publishers’ income.

April 9: Google Stadia will launch 10 new tours.According to foreign media Engadget, Google’s cloud game platform Stadia will launch 10 new tours. It is reported that the game products that Google Stadia cooperated with this time include: The Dark Side Detective: A Fumble in the Dark, an adventure puzzle game developed by Spooky Doorway, and Foreclosed, developed by Merge Games.　

April 9: Epic Game Mall lost nearly $600 million in three years.According to foreign media reports, the relevant file data submitted in the dispute between Epic and Apple shows that Epic Game Store (EGS) lost about 181 million US dollars in 2019 and 273 million US dollars in 2020. Epic predicts that the loss of EGS will reach $139 million in 2021.

April 9: BYD disclosed the patent of "game auxiliary equipment configuration method".Tianyancha App shows that BYD Co., Ltd. has disclosed an invention patent named "game auxiliary equipment configuration method, terminal equipment and storage medium". The patent abstract shows that the terminal equipment on the physical locomotive of the embodiment of the present application uses the configuration information of the target game loaded on it, so that the operating equipment on the physical locomotive is associated with the trigger point of the target game, and the auxiliary equipment of the game is configured.

April 9th: The public beta of Resident Evil Re: Verse was suspended.Resident Evil’s latest multiplayer game "Resident Evil Re:Verse" has been open for testing on the Steam platform at 3 am on April 9, Beijing time. As of the moment before 3 am on April 12, it is necessary to bind the Steam account to the Capcom account, and all users can play for free. However, CapcomAsia has just officially announced that due to matching problems in the game, the public beta will be temporarily suspended until further notice.

E-sports dynamics:

April 7: Link and LNG reach a strategic cooperation.Link 06 and League of Legends professional team LNG Esports— — The co-officials of LNG Li Ning E-sports Club (hereinafter referred to as LNG Team) announced a strategic cooperation, and the joint efforts of domestic and foreign players also enabled the two sides to directly play the slogan of "New Country Tide, Team Fight". As the official designated car brand of the Asian Games, Lexus represents Geely’s higher-end and younger direction. Now it has entered the e-sports market together with Mercedes-Benz and BMW in front of the Z generation, and also opened a new story of domestic car brands.

April 8th: China national e-sports football team began to select.According to Tencent E-sports, according to the arrangement of FIFA, the 2021 FIFA eNations Cup (FIFA E-sports National Cup) qualifiers will be held from April 30th to May 2nd. Tencent E-sports said that in order to get tickets for the Asia-Pacific region, the China National E-sports Football Team’s athletes’ trials, sponsored by China Football Association, Tencent E-sports, EAsports and assisted by TGA Tencent E-sports Games, will be held on April 8th.

April 8: Tickets for League of Legends LPL Spring Finals are on sale.League of Legends announced that tickets for the 2021LPL Spring Finals in Wuhan will be opened at 14:00 on April 9. Each user needs to use QQ number with League of Legends level 30 and above game account to purchase tickets. Fares range from 200 yuan to 880 yuan.

A new tour will be launched next week (April 12-April 17):

According to the hot money network, the three works that will be launched next week are not big factory products.