Tencent’s Huya live-streaming platform halted Chinese broadcasts of the new League of Legends season after a South Korean team referred to Taiwan as a country.

Chinese teams won four esports gold medals out of seven matches at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, providing a morale boost for gaming fans who are miffed by Beijing’s hostility towards the industry.

Despite esports gold at Asian Games, Chinese video gamers see little prospect of an overall sea change in Beijing’s tough approach to governing the industry.

The undefeated Chinese team cleaned house in the Tencent mobile game, an international version of Honour of Kings, with a 2-0 victory over Malaysia.

The Chinese gaming giant is ramping up its gaming investments in places like Europe, Japan, and South Korea amid difficulties at home.

The executive shuffle is expected to bring greater synergies between Tencent’s video gaming and live-streaming businesses.

Tencent’s League of Legends Esports Manager won China Game of the Year in Apple’s 2022 App Store Awards, a rare international accolade for a Chinese title amid gloomy times for the sector.

The semi-finals defeat of China’s JDG team at the 2022 League of Legends World Championship has renewed discussion about the impact of video gaming restrictions on the country’s esports industry.

Strict pandemic controls make it tough for esports tournament organisers to stage offline events, host audiences and communicate with various clubs in China.

League of Legends is a hugely popular online video game, and its creator Riot Games offered a glimpse into its headquarters, complete with free food and drinks, two cinemas and a huge games library.

From high school dropout to League of Legends’ unanimous GOAT, here’s how 25-year-old Lee Sang-hyeok is defying logic once again as he eyes a record-breaking fourth world championship title.

Netflix’s Arcane, set in the League of Legends universe, has a compelling narrative and characters and stunning animation that will delight fans of the game fans and draw in newcomers.

Tencent-owned Riot Games wants to expand into other forms of entertainment for gamers, and the success of its first TV series on Netflix is a big step in that direction, the CEO tells the Post.

While often presented as another “spiritual opium” imported from the West, video games have become a big industry in China with global influence.

CCTV and Xinhua, China’s top state media outlets, congratulate Edward Gaming on their League of Legends World Championship.

Shanghai-based Edward Gaming has become only the third Chinese team to win the esport industry’s coveted League of Legends World Championship finals.

Dolce & Gabbana’s recent US$6 million sale of NFT merchandise shows how far virtual fashion has come. Louis Vuitton and Balmain have also sold clothes to be worn by customers’ online avatars or digital selves.

Video game streamers risk having their clips removed from sites, because of music copyright infringement on their streams. To solve this, Riot Games has released an album of music that doesn’t infringe any copyright.

‘Unlike human singers, AI members can freely express themselves,’ said Park Ji-eun, CEO of Pulse 9, the company behind new AI-powered girl band Eternity – but with new tech comes problems too

Tencent, owner of the world’s largest gaming business, is negotiating with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to retain its stakes in American game developers, said sources.

Amid record growth in 2020, Tencent’s gaming empire is now under siege from big tech rivals and upstarts alike, with one of the hottest new games of the year circumventing Tencent’s ecosystem.

After China’s Tencent failed to convince League of Legends’ creators to develop a mobile version of the PC game, it created Honour of Kings – now the most popular game in the world.

Professional e-sports player ‘HotDog29’ gets fit to help his Street Fighter V and Tekken skills improve.

Honour of Kings is a multiplayer game, wildly popular in China, where a team of five heroes go up against another team of five.

League of Legends: Wild Rift, the highly-anticipated adaptation of the biggest e-sports title in the world, launches a beta in seven Asian countries.

American sports apparel giant Nike rolls out a glitzy e-sports commercial in China in its latest move to court players and fans in the world’s second-largest economy.

Tencent is the world’s largest gaming company, but scrutiny in the US threatens to unravel its myriad investments in the country.