Yexi Liao
Market Analyst, IDC Asia/Pacific
Microsoft's blockbuster acquisition announcement on January 18, 2022, makes clear that the company is serious about continuing to invest in its games business as a core competency. While Microsoft has a long history of competing in the home...
On September 1, 2021, the China government implemented a new regulation to further limit game time for the youth. On September 9, 2021, reports came out that regulators will start to slow down the approvals for new online games to help supp...
Announcements at COMPUTEX 2021 Virtual centered on large silicon vendors, such as Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm, with each of them touting their latest advances to appeal to the PC-centric industry in Taiwan. All this translates into bet...
This IDC Market Perspective provides an update on the China gaming industry in 1H21 with insights into various current trends in the market and its impact on the local market. The China gaming industry has started to normalize as consumers ...
This IDC Market Perspective examines the concept of the metaverse under the influence of COVID-19, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), gaming, and other factors. The development of the metaverse will have an impact on six key areas of the ma...
"The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the China gaming market in 2020, and it's likely to continue in 2021. While mobile and PC gaming will continue to dominate the China market, other gaming segments such as console, VR, and clo...