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This week, users on Reddit accused Epic Games of spying on their customers through the Epic Games Store software. Among other things, the thread accuses the Epic client of making a copy of Steam's localconfig.vdf, sending hardware information and a list of running processes to Epic, and...

Last year, China stopped approving new video games in an effort to (this is a direct translation) "protect children's eyesight," which created quite a bit of anxiety in the gaming industry. Eventually, the government started approving games again, but the pace was relatively slow, and many...

A recent report from the Taiwanese news site Digitimes claims that Razer and Asustek are both in talks with the Chinese gaming giant Tencent over the release of a "gaming smartphone that supports Tencent's games." Asus's recently released ZenFone Max Pro is reportedly the last "consumer"...

According to reports, video game publisher Nexon is up for sale. Nexon founder Kim Jung-joo and his wife Yoo Jung-hyun are seeking to sell their 98.64% equity stake in the company. But the sale is complicated as NXC only own 47.98% of shares in Japan. "Nexon Korea is a wholly owned subsidiary of...

The security team of the Chinese media conglomerate Tencent has allegedly found a vulnerability in SQLite. Dubbed "Magellan," the vulnerability would supposedly allow attackers to run unauthorized code remotely, leak program memory, or crash programs that use the software. SQLite is used as a...

Tencent is determined to get back into the good graces of Chinese censors after the Chinese government stopped approving new video game licenses to fight myopia. First they added facial recognition to the popular mobile game "Honor of Kings" as an age check. Now they are beginning to verify...

Broadcom has begun sampling its third generation E-Series controller called Thor that brings the world's first 200G Ethernet controller with PCIe 4.0 and 50G PAM-4. It is designed for high performance computing, networking and storage applications including machine learning, storage...

Ubisoft released their latest sales figures to investors and they have far exceeded their projected goals. PC games eclipsing Xbox sales is mildly surprising and it seems that Ubisoft is ready to expand their PC lineup into China via a partnership with Tencent. I wonder how The Crew 2 is going...

Chinese phones have been the subject of security issues and as we previously reported; some companies have even been banned from contracts in the USA. Until now it has all been speculation on how and when do these devices spy on their users. Chinese users are reporting that their phones will...

Tencent has announced that it plans to take it's PC games marketplace, WeGame, worldwide starting with a Hong Kong version. The announcement comes shortly after Valve announced a Chinese version of it's PC games marketplace, Steam. While WeGame is tiny compared to Steam, currently having only...

If you are a Path of Exile fan, you will either love this news or hate this news. Indie developers, Grinding Gear Games, that started in a garage in New Zealand, has sold up to 80% of its shares to it Chinese publisher. The devs are quoted below about this and you can see their other comments...