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This article was organized by the editorial team of Reliable.

The year 2024 has passed, and as we stand at the beginning of 2025, we look back on the industry events of the past year with more emotion when the dimension of time is superimposed.

Game industry The game industry has won the battle, domestic 3A went to the world, boutique multiterminal globalization, high-specification masterpieces one after another, the issuance of version number is stable, and the competition in the best-seller list is fierce. e-Sports industry is facing transformation, the head tournament is weak, the old game misses the championship, the anchors contribute to the flow of the whole work, the new game wins the championship to seize the C position, and the sea has become a popular new battleground.

Chinese animation seems to be more difficult, each platform project planning began to become less and more refined, but more high-quality yearly theater version of the dark horse works also gave the industry more confidence Animation movies Entered the bottleneck, the commonly used means of selling misery publicity can not persuade consumers to buy the bill, the market is more calm and also more respect for the production of script, publicity and the production of works that have to be qualified in all three aspects of the cartoon industry The gas number is exhausted, the fire is all negative, no good news.

The new AI technology is still in the wind, and there are landing projects, but there is still a long way to go before cost-effective commercialization The Valley Economy has become the core topic of the 2024 secondary business, and the consumption around the emotional value is still diverging, and the expanding new business model brings new hope to the cartoon that is stuck in the cash flow.

Based on the domestic market, we have selected 100 major events in the global ACGN industry in 2024, and hope to work with all practitioners to retrace the development trajectory of 2024, and gain insights into the trends and opportunities in 2025 and beyond.

In 2024, our public numbers Reliable Game Game and Reliable Second Yuan paid attention to many hot events in the industry, and the related articles can be clicked on the following sub-titles of each event to jump for details and opinions.

Thank you for your support in 2024!

Note The following rankings are in no particular order, and are organized in chronological order as far as possible.

January

1 A total of 1,416 game licenses issued in 2024

Event Review A total of 1,416 domestic game licenses were issued in 2024, including 1,306 domestic games and 110 imported games, the highest in the past five years.

2 Live game streaming platform Twitch lays off 35 employees

Event Review On January 10, foreign media sources said that the well-known game live broadcasting platform Twitch will lay off large-scale employees, and then the company officially confirmed the news, announcing that it will lay off more than 500 people, accounting for about 35 of its total number of employees.

3 Ancient Sword developer’s new work White Thorn Cloister public beta testing

Event Review On January 12, the strategy RPG White Thorn Corridor, developed by Shanghai Candlewood Games and published by Tencent Games, was officially put into beta.

4 Phantom Beast Paru: The most popular Steam game after PUBG

Event Review On January 19, Japanese developer Pocketpair released the game Phantom Beast Paru, which landed on Steam and Xbox, and also entered Microsoft’s game subscription service Game Pass.SteamDB data shows that the highest number of online players on Steam of Phantom Beast Paru has exceeded 2.1 million, which is only second to Survival of the Fallen in the history of Steam.

5 King of Glory League of Legends Live broadcasting in Shake Shack unblocked

Event Review On January 21, the head game anchor Zhang Daxian opened his first King of Glory game live in Shake Sound, and then the King of Glory content in Shake Sound live broadcast is fully banned.On January 31, Tencent’s game Heroes Union official microblogging announced that it will be February 6 in Shake Sound fully open live broadcast.

6 Fist game layoffs 11

Event Review On January 22, the American developer of the League of Legends, Fist Games, Riot Games, said it plans to lay off 530 people, accounting for about 11 percent of the total number of employees.

7 Kyoto animation arson case prisoner sentenced to death

Event Review On January 25, the Kyoto District Court of Japan pronounced judgment on the arson case of Kyoto Animation. The court found that the defendant, Shinji Aoba, had the capacity of criminal responsibility and sentenced him to death for arson and murder.

8 Collectible card maker Card Game applies for listing in Hong Kong, but lapses

Event Review On January 26, Card Game Limited formally submitted a form to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, seeking a listing in Hong Kong. The prospectus shows that in 2021 2022 and the first nine months of 2023, Card Games realized revenues of 2.298 billion yuan 4.131 billion yuan 1.952 billion yuan.

At the end of July, information from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange showed that the listing application submitted by Card Game six months earlier had lapsed.

February

9 Tencent becomes the largest shareholder of Candlewick’s parent company Netsun Shengtang.

Event Review On February 5, Tencent completed its acquisition of a stake in Beijing Netsun Shengtang Entertainment Technology Company Limited, a leading single-player game maker in China, according to domestic media sources. After the transaction, Tencent’s shareholding reached 87.36%, making Tencent the largest shareholder of Netscape, and it will participate in the subsequent operation of the company.

10 bilibili 2024 worship age, Li Haoling first time as general director

Event Review At 19:30 on New Year’s Eve, February 9, the B station’s 2024 Bailiwick was officially broadcast. Different from previous years, the general director of this year’s Bilibili 2024 is the director of the animation Time Agent Cameo Heroes series, Li Haoling.

11 bear out of space and time to become the 2024 domestic animated movie box office champion

Event Review 2024 domestic animated movie box office champion for Huaqiang Fante Bears Reverse Time, total box office 2,006 million, this is the fourth time the Bears series took the annual animated movie box office champion Second place for Hayao Miyazaki What kind of life do you want to live, the mainland box office of 791 million Third for the chase animation of the new work of the White Snake Floating Life, the total box office of 426 million.

12 OpenAI Launches Sora, a Vincentian Video Product

Event Review On February 16, AI vendor OpenAI launched a model that can instantly generate short videos based on text commands, named Sora. the model can coherently generate videos up to 60 seconds long, triggering industry buzz. in the early hours of December 10, OpenAI released Sora, an AI video generation product that will be the first to be rolled out in the U.S. and other regions, in a live broadcast on the third day of the launch.

13 52nd Annie Awards, Spider-Man Across the Universe Wins Best Feature Animation

Event Review On February 18, the animation industry awards Annie Awards, Sony’s Spider-Man Across the Universe won seven awards, including Best Animated Feature Film.

14 Google released AI-generated interactive environment product Genie

Event review on February 26, Google Deep Mind team released the basic world model Genie, a virtual generation of interactive environment, according to its official website, Genie can be generated through a static picture, can move the interactive environment.

15 Guangzhou Internet Court Issues World’s First Effective Judgment on Copyright Infringement by Generative AI Services

Event Review On February 26, according to the 21st Century Business Herald, the Guangzhou Internet Court recently issued a judgment that a generative AI service infringes on others’ copyrights, which is also the world’s first effective judgment that a generative AI service infringes on others’ copyrights. The case held that the defendant, an artificial intelligence company, had infringed the plaintiff’s reproduction and adaptation rights of the Ultraman work in the course of providing generative AI services, and should bear the relevant civil liability.

March

16 Manga artist Akira Toriyama passed away

Event Review According to the Japan Broadcasting Association TV station reported on the 8th, Japan’s famous manga artist, manga Dragon Ball Alaray author Akira Toriyama died on March 1 at the age of 68 due to illness.

17 WordPress Moves Gaming Business to Incubation Status

Event Review On March 14, ByteDance’s game department released an internal letter announcing the next stage of adjustment of the game business, which mentioned that the game business will return to the incubation status. Among them, Huawei, the person in charge of human resources of ByteDance, will act as the person in charge of the game business in the next stage, managing UGC Mu pupil and Chaoyi Guangnian, and the former person in charge of the game business, Yan Zhu, will be transferred to the company’s finance department. It also includes the adjustment of some secondary department heads, all of which have turned to Hua Wei to report.

18 阅文发布2023财报发布

Event Review On March 18, the 2023 financial report of ReadWrite Group was released, with annual revenue of 7.012 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 8 Gross profit of 3.371 billion, a year-on-year decline of 16 3 .

19 Tencent announced its 2023 financial results, with revenue up 10

Event Review On March 20, Tencent announced its 2023 financial results, last year its revenue accumulated 609.15 billion yuan, up 10 Profit attributable to equity holders of the company for the year was 157.688 billion yuan, up 36 .

20 Bubble Mart Earnings Release

Event Review On March 20, Bubble Mart released its 2023 financial results. According to the report, Bubble Mart’s revenue for the year was RMB 6.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 36.5 percent. Adjusted net profit was RMB 1.19 billion, a year-on-year increase of 107.6 percent. Revenue and net profit both hit record highs.

21 Yin Yang Shi claims King’s Honor plagiarized, and publicizes lawyer’s letter

Event Review On the evening of March 21, the official blog of Yin Yang Shi suddenly took on the glory of the king, the former accused the latter of the upcoming launch of the new hero Dasiming in the art of plagiarism of their own game style character God Qi Arai, and with a picture of you to express the indignation. March 22, the official blog of Yin Yang Shi public lawyer’s letter, said The next story, will start from a lawyer’s letter.

22 Alibaba liquidates its stake in Beili Beili

Event Review On March 25, Beili Beili B station released an announcement that Alibaba has sold all of its shares in B station. In this regard, Alibaba said that the sale is mainly based on Ali’s own capital management objectives, and will not affect the business cooperation between the two sides.

April

23 2024 Domestic Animation Trend Report Released

Event Review On April 1, Reliable Second released the 2024 Domestic Animation Trend Report, which takes stock of nearly ten dimensions of domestic network animation dramas in 2023, analyzes the status quo of industry development, and combines the changing law of China’s animation industry in the past ten years with the 10 major trends of future animation dramas.

24 Mu pupil and fist in the United States settlement

Event Review On April 2, according to media reports, Fist Games and Mu Pupil Technology reached a global settlement on their intellectual property dispute. After many rounds of communication, the two sides have formally signed an agreement to reach a settlement on past disputes, while Fighter Games decided to formally withdraw the relevant lawsuit.

25 Miyazaki Hayao’s work What kind of life do you want to live Domestic release

Event Review On April 3, 2024 Oscar best animation feature film Miyazaki Hayao’s new work What kind of life do you want to live was released in Mainland China, with a cumulative box office of 791 million yuan, becoming the 10th largest box office in the domestic movie market in 2024.

26 Blizzard and NetEase get back together

Event Review On April 10, Blizzard China and NetEase announced separately that they had reopened their cooperation and brought Blizzard games back to China.

27 Phantom Beast Paru creator proud of Tencent and others imitating Paru

On April 16, the creator of Fantasy Beasts Paru, Takuro Mizube, recently posted a tweet. He mentioned that Tencent and other Chinese companies are developing the same type of game as Phantom Paloo, and said that it’s a great time to be a Phantom. He later added that he doesn’t think Tencent’s approach is wrong, and that he’s proud of the fact that Phantom Paloo has attracted imitations from his peers.

28 Lohas Entertainment Acquires A SOUL and Other Artists from Zhijiang Entertainment

On April 19, Lehua Entertainment announced that it had acquired A SOUL, a virtual idol group under ByteDance’s Chaoyu Guangnian, and other artists from Zhijiang Entertainment at a price of RMB 30 million, with the technical intellectual property rights related to A SOUL, including code and copyrights, equipment, and domain names, to be handed over to Nice Future, the company of Lehua Entertainment’s chairman, Du Hua’s brother, Du Jiang, which is responsible for operating the company. operation.

29 Yuri on Ice Theater Version Termination of Production

Event Review On April 19, the Japanese TV animation Yuri on Ice official social media released a heavy notice Originally scheduled to be published in 2019, the theatrical version of Yuri on Ice Theatre Edition ICE ADOLESCENCE, in the public postponed for five years, the production terminated. After the news was issued in the Japanese local social media hot search triggered a hot debate, Yuri theater version production suspension MAPPA discontinued published three words on the local social media hot search.

30 BLG won the first LPL title in team history and entered 2024 MSI together with TES.

Event Review On April 20, the 2024 LPL Spring Finals concluded in Foshan, Guangdong Province, and BLG won the first Silver Dragon Cup in the team’s history by defeating TES by 3 1 with an outstanding performance, and the FMVP player was AD player elk.

31 Dusty White Forbidden Zone Late night live broadcast to announce price reduction and update to remove male character progress

Event Review In the early morning of April 20, Dust White Sanctuary opened a live broadcast, announcing that the game will be a series of kryptonite and pay changes, and updated the progress of the previous changes to the male characters. Dust White Sanctuary development team said that the game will only be launched three times in the future dual role pool, and dual role must be a character to the player at the same time, the character skin will not exceed 200 yuan, and each version will not launch more than five skins.

32 The nation’s first case of AI voice infringement case was declared

Event Review The first national AI sound infringement case was heard on April 23 in Beijing Internet Court. The result of this case clearly determined that under the premise of recognizability, the protection of natural person’s voice rights and interests can be extended to AI-generated voices.

May

33 2024 Binary Trend Consumption Trend Report Released

Event Review On May 6, Rely on Second Element released the 2024 Second Element Trend Consumption Trend Report by taking stock of the current situation and development of the hottest products related to the consumption of second element trends from the perspective of consumption insights and consumption trends, and analyzing the consumption trends of second element trends in the coming period.

34 2024 AIGC Trend Report Released

Event Review On May 9, Reliance Secondary released the 2024 AIGC Development Trend Report, which sorted out the current status of AIGC technology development in the pan-entertainment industry, including animation, game, film and TV industry, and made an inventory of commonly used tools.

35 Daewoo Information Sells All Rights to Regulus and Remaining Rights to Immortal Sword and Wonderland

Event Review On May 14, Daewoo Information announced that it intends to sell the unsold regional rights of its classic game IP Immortal Sword and Wonderful Warrior as well as the global rights of Regulus for the sake of the Group’s long-term development strategy.

36 BLG Wins MSI Runner-up

Event Review On May 19, BLG from the LPL lost to GEN from the LCK with a score of 1 3, and won the runner-up of this year’s League of Legends Mid-Season Championship held in Chengdu.

37 Dungeons & Dragons Handheld game open beta

Event Review On May 21, Tencent’s annual heavyweight handheld game Dungeons & Warriors Origins was officially launched, and the game quickly topped the App Store’s free and bestseller lists after its launch.

38 Fox Demon Xiao Hong Niang Yuehong Chapter Launched, poor reviews like a wave of

Event Review On the evening of May 23, the Fox Demon Little Red Queen’s Moon Red Story TV series started broadcasting, the hot search is full, but unfortunately, the majority of negative comments.

39 Naruto tide public beta, triggering a new round of business war in the open world of the second game

Event Review On May 23rd, the open-world multiplayer game Mingshao was put into beta testing globally, and topped the App Store’s free game list in 107 regions. After the launch of the game, it triggered a new round of business war in the open world of the second game.

40 Wu Jing to star in live-action version of Dartman

Event Review On May 24, Wu Jing revealed at a public event that he is working with director Yuan Woo-ping to prepare for the comic book action movie Dartman, and has already begun to grow long hair and a beard for the role, with the start of the movie imminent.

41 The 10th anniversary of the completion of the full-time master novel, the next stop Zurich!

Event Review May 29, 2024, May 29, 2024, the tenth anniversary of the e-sports-themed online novel All-Job Master created by Butterfly Blue, a platinum writer of the Reading Group, is also the birthday of the protagonist Ye Xiu. ReadWrite Group and the Swiss National Tourism Administration jointly announced that they will launch the 25 Years of Master of All Trades Zurich program, a one-year in-depth overseas cultural tourism activity, and Ye Xiu, the protagonist of the novel Master of All Trades, will be the 2025 Swiss Tourism Pathfinder.

42 League of Legends Legends Cup draws heat, hotter than MSI

EVENT REVIEW May In June, a League of Legends Legends Cup, which consists of retired and inactive LPL players and includes world champions such as Uzi TheShy Ning imp, kicked off. The tournament had its ups and downs, with some teams changing captains and other undesirable events. One of the teams, Uzi San Krystal Kid, failed to make it to the second round and became one of the first teams to be eliminated.

June

43 Goddess of Victory Nikke developer Shift Up listing cleared for July launch

Event Review In mid-June, after Shift Up voluntarily revised its IPO filing at the request of regulators, Shift Up held an IPO press conference in Seoul, South Korea, on June 25, announcing that the company would go public in July.

On October 25, the third-person shooter placement game Goddess of Victory New Hope, known as NIKKE, received a version number, and the national version will be jointly operated and distributed by Migu and Tencent.

44 Star Athletics Mighty Goes Public in U.S. IPO

Event Review On June 12, NIP Group, the Cayman-based holding company of Wuhan Star Athletics Vivo, filed a public registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to go public in the U.S. with a proposed Nasdaq IPO under the ticker symbol NIPG, with an expected fundraising of $50 million. For the fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, the Company reported revenues of $83,668,000 and a net loss of $13,258,000.

45 Reading Group Organizes 2024 Creation Conference

Event Review On June 12, the 2024 ReadWrite Creative Conference was held in Huangshan. Hou Xiaonan, CEO and President of ReadWrite Group, said that what ReadWrite wants to do is to do a good job of IP career planning for creators and accompany growth in the whole life cycle, so as to help good content realize greater value and bring better returns for creators.

46 niconico suffered hacking attack shutdown, released nostalgic version

Event Review On June 14, animation pop-up website niconico released a statement saying that the company’s data center had been hit by a ransomware cyberattack, resulting in a large number of virtual machines being encrypted and unusable. As a result, niconico shut down all its services and temporarily launched a nostalgic version of NICONICO Anime Re 仮 , which contains some popular videos and basic features from around 2007.

47 Beeper’s 15th Anniversary, Chairman Chen Rui Delivers Speech

Event Review On June 26, B Station celebrated its 15th anniversary, and Chairman and CEO Chen Rui delivered a speech with the theme of Growing with You. He said that the average age of users who joined the company in the first year of its establishment in 2009 was already over 35 years old. In addition, the average daily active number and average monthly active number of B station has been high year after year, and the average daily active number in 2024 has reached 102 million, the average monthly active number has reached 341 million, and the average daily usage time of users has reached 105 minutes.

48 Warcraft Nostalgia Service Opens, Official Service on August 1

Event Review At 6:00 on June 27, World of Warcraft nostalgia service, Wrath of the Lich King, was launched. from June 27 to July 10, the nostalgia service did not consume game time, but the Battle.net Mall service was unavailable. on July 10, it was expected that the service would be suspended for 24 hours for maintenance. After the completion of the maintenance, all services of the Wrath of the Lich King will be completely restarted. In the morning, Blizzard announced that the official World of Warcraft service will return on August 1, August 27, the global synchronization to open the version of the battle of the center of the earth.

July

49 The first Saudi Arabia World Cup was held, and several Chinese gaming teams participated in it

Event Review The 2024 Saudi Gaming World Cup was held in Riyadh from July 3 to August 25, with more than 19 competing games, a prize pool of more than $60 million, and $20 million in club prizes. Chinese gaming clubs won the championship in King’s Pride Street Fighter 6 Genting Game and Karapichu. In League of Legends, China’s TES team lost to T1 in the final 1-3, and in Jedi Survival, China’s Pero team was defeated by SQ by 4 points, and won the second place; in Dota 2, China’s teams played poorly, and many of them lost in the knockout stage.

50 Japan’s Kadokawa acquires Anime Kobo

Event Review On July 11, Kadokawa Group announced that it had successfully acquired the famous Japanese animation company Anime Kobo and established it as a subsidiary to continue animation production work in the future.

51 Hara Kami 4 8 Version Causes Controversy

Event Review On July 17th, players found that the water-based C character Navelette’s Dragon King Spinning Gameplay in the Original God 4 8 version was repaired with the problem of the heavy-hitting high-speed spinning abnormality, and the new version adjustment was on the hot search again, and the old character was cut in the name of bugs, which triggered the dissatisfaction of the players.

52 Hatsune Miku’s Concert at Racer

Event Review On July 21, Hatsune Miku concert was exclusively broadcast live on Racer, with a total of 83.04 million viewers, 120 million likes, and once topped the Racer live broadcast list TOP1.

53 Annual animation dark horse works to cut off the God of the mortal dust God domain Opened, Douban rating three consecutive increases

Event Review On July 31, the animation based on the original popular work of tomato novels, “I Learned to Kill the God in the Mental Hospital”, was broadcasted, with Douban rating of 8.4, achieving three consecutive rises, and Tencent video station heat of 23,000, with 3.16 million people hitting 9.6 super-high scores. The work with top production quality, script, visual effects, music and other aspects of outstanding performance, become 2024 undisputed national cartoon dark horse work.

August

54 Tencent’s First Virtual Anchor Themed Game Void Ring Releases PV

Event Review On August 4, Tencent’s CDD Content Development Department’s Void Ring PV was released, with companies and guilds such as B.com, NetEase, Lohas, and VSPO joining Tencent’s virtual idol plate, making for a lively gathering of the V-circle of the century, and with 2.8 million views one day after the release of the PV, exceeding the PVs of many popular games. The heat of the game.

55 Youku Animation Cang Yuan Tu Dongningfu Extra Wrap Up

Event Review On August 4, Cang Yuantu Dongningfu Extra, produced by Youku Animation and co-produced by Angel Culture and Shenman Culture, and adapted from Cang Yuantu, a novel of the platinum author of Starting Point, formally ended, breaking through the highest peak of the national cartoon popularity in the station to reach 8,534, and the related hot searches have been on top of the first place of the whole station for many times.

56 Virtual Host Minato Akua Announces Graduation

Event Review On August 6, hololive two students, virtual anchor Minato Akua announced graduation, in the live broadcast she said that the reason for graduation with the official hope that the goal is different.On October 27, the Japanese popular virtual anchor Minato Akua through the period of exposure in the person account renamed knot city yesterday Nai start broadcasting. Become following the tripping love Nakanoren with a new identity virtual anchor resurrection, another high popularity virtual anchor graduation re-employment case.

57 Lord of the Mysteries New PV announced, produced by Simei Pictures

Event Review On August 10th, the Lord of Sneakiness animation released a new teaser PV, according to the Tencent Video Animation Awards 2024 site, the Lord of Sneakiness clown volume production progress has reached 80, will be released in 2025, the animation is by the magic Taoist master of the eternal thought producer of the visual beauty of the film industry.

58 White Snake Floating Life was released in theaters, the next day box office cut, the lack of energy

Event Review On August 10th, the new animated film White Snake Floating Life was released, with a box office of 94.3 million yuan on the first day, becoming the box office champion of the Tanabata slot.On August 11th, the box office of the film was decimated, and according to the statistics of Cat’s Eye Professional Edition, the box office of the same day was only 42.79 million yuan, which was less than half of the box office of the first day. The cat’s eye professional version of the film’s total box office prediction, also fell from 662 million to 454 million.

By the end of the year, the cumulative box office of White Snake and Floating Life was only 425 million, far below market expectations.

59 Tencent Video Animation Awards 2024, releasing multiple industry signals

In mid-August, Tencent Video Animation Awards 2024 released a list of 60 IP animation movies. From the macro level of the industry, Reliable Second Element interpreted the release of this release, including the narrowing of new IP projects, difficult to produce works are still difficult to produce, the hegemony of the yearly series has failed, and the theatrical version has become a new direction of exploration. Urban supernormal capabilities and science fiction track have become the new king of the volume, but the selling price is average, the production company’s new pattern, the aesthetics and scripts have become the key to the national style aesthetics, traditional culture has become a trend and other industry signals.

The animation of Jianlai, which is supported by more than 60 national comics, has started broadcasting, but viewers can’t understand it.

Event Review Tencent Video’s major summer project Jianlai started broadcasting on August 15, with many national comics joining in the movie to link up with Jianlai’s lines. However, this work is expected to be high, but the audience complained that they could not understand, complex settings, many ambush in the clouds, strange action of the characters for the sake of the national style of special effects and other works in the inexplicable Jianlai are confusing. This work is related to the second creation, more in the spit and try to explain the content related to can’t read, and did not focus on the highlights should have, affecting the audience’s word-of-mouth feedback, can be said to be born at the wrong time.

61 Black Myth Goku goes public and sells over 10 million copies in three days

Event Review On August 20, the domestic 3A game Black Myth Goku went on sale on PC gaming platforms such as Steam Tencent Wegame Epic and PS5 consoles. According to the official data, the game sold more than 10 million copies in three days after its release, and the highest number of simultaneous online players on all platforms exceeded 3 million.

62 EDG Wins 2024 Fearless Contracts Global Championships

Event Review On August 25, the 2024 Fearless Pact Global Championship came to a close in Seoul, South Korea, with EDG from the VCT CN League winning the championship trophy with a 3 2 victory over EMEA League team TH.

63 Stacked Paper to Sue Rapper PACT Paiket, Tencent NetEase in Support

Event Review On August 26th, rapper PACT Peckett released a diss rap music video against the B game, which used a large number of images from the game Love and Deep Space. on August 27th, the developer of Love and Deep Space, Folding Paper Network, released a statement, saying that it would take appropriate measures, including filing a civil lawsuit. In addition, tencent light and the love of the night release we have their own rap, netease time and space of the painted traveler recognize in netease cloud music shelves related diss song action, to rappers diss b tour behavior to express dissatisfaction.

64 BLG wins LPL Summer Championship, advances to League of Legends S14 Worlds as #1 seed

Event Review On August 30, 2024 League of Legends Summer Tournament Finals, Team BLG defeated Team WBG by 3 0 to hold the first Summer Tournament Championship trophy in the club team’s history.

September

65 50 Most Profitable IPs in the World 2024 Latest Edition

Event Review In September, Reliable Secondary compiled the latest data on the list of the world’s 50 most profitable IPs, with Pokémon Mickey Mouse and his friends Puffy the Bear Star Wars series Disney Princesses ranking in the top five.

66 Sony’s masterpiece Star Ming Special Attack Shut down the service and withdrew from the market

Event Review On September 4, Sony announced that its game Starburst would be removed from all platforms with immediate effect, and refunds would be arranged. on September 6, Starburst shut down all servers worldwide. According to related sources, the production cost of the game is about 400 million dollars, which is one of the most expensive games in the history of PlayStation.

67 Miha Tour’s AI Big Model has completed its filing

Event Review On September 9, the Shanghai Internet Information Office released an announcement on the filing of generative AI services On September 9, seven new generative AI services were added that had completed the filing, including AIGC technology products such as Glossa, a generative AI service of Shanghai MihaYou Mystery Technology Co.

68 Daewoo Sells All Regulus Sword Immortal Sword & Chivalry IPs

Event Review On the evening of September 11, Daewoo Information, which has produced single-player games such as Immortal Sword and Chivalry, Regulus, Monopoly, etc., announced that its board of directors resolved to confirm the disposal of the global intellectual property rights of Regulus, as well as the global intellectual property rights of Immortal Sword and Chivalry, with a total selling price of approximately RMB 110 million.

69 Return to the Dragon Tide handheld game public beta

Event Review On September 13th, the national action RPG game Dragon Quest was officially put into public beta, and on the second day of service, the score of Dragon Quest reached 7.2 points on the B station, and the score on TapTap once rose to 7.7 points.

70 Perfect World First Theater Version Opens, Caught in a Controversy of Public Opinion in the Rice Circle

Event Review On September 17th, the first theatrical version of Perfect World was quickly embroiled in a whirlpool of public opinion, and the biggest controversy among fans was over the three main female characters. Who is the mistress? As well as the career-enhancing male lead, the Arakanese Emperor’s sole beauty. The original well-produced animation was negatively impacted by the rice circle. The culture of the rice circle has penetrated into the field of domestic animation, and has become a hot topic in the new stage of the operation of national comics.

71 Ali’s investment in Shenman Culture Ian Animation

On September 18, Changsha Shenman Culture Technology Co., Ltd, which produces Cang Yuantu animation, had a shareholding change, and Beijing Big Fish Happy Culture Media Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of Ali, became the second largest shareholder with a shareholding ratio of 8,4746. Previously, Big Fish Happy had also invested in Suzhou Ian Animation, which was involved in the production of God of Refinement, with a shareholding ratio of 76,257, and the shareholding ratio was 76.5 percent.

72 Nintendo sued Pocket Pair, a fantasy beast company.

Event Review On September 19th, Nintendo publicly issued a document that it would file a patent infringement lawsuit against Pocket Pair, the copyright holder of Fantasy Beasts Paru, in the Tokyo District Court of Japan. The article stated that Phantom Paloo infringed on a number of patents, and Nintendo demanded Pocket Pair to stop the infringement and compensate for the damages. Pocket Pair later responded that it had received notice of the lawsuit and would initiate legal proceedings and investigate the patent infringement allegations.

73 Cartoonist’s Farm Incident Raises Concerns

In late September, cartoonist Zhen Liubao broke the news that A Soul Manga Studio was treating cartoonists harshly, and that the studio had poor living conditions and no social security, which triggered an online campaign against sweatshops and cartoonists’ farms.

74 Byte Beanbag Releases Two Video GenAI Models

Event Review On September 25, Byte Beanbag released two video AI generation content models, namely the PixelDance model, which is good at multi-subject interaction and consistent multi-camera generation, and the Seaweed model, which is committed to improving the capabilities of Vincent’s videos.

75 Naruto Wins Galaxy Award for Best Sci-Fi Game

Event Review On September 28, the 35th China Science Fiction Galaxy Awards was held in Chengdu, in which Naruto won the Galaxy Award for Best Sci-Fi Game.

76 Mantra Back to War Manga Ends

Event Review On September 30th, the 6 year old manga Mantra Kyojin manga ended, and the author, Shimoshita Akutomi, posted a congratulatory picture and a message after the conclusion of the manga, saying, “It’s the last word! Thank you all for your kind attention! I’ll keep up the challenge in my future works!

October

77 2024 Youku Anime Annual Conference Announces New Movie List

Event Review On October 3, 2024 Youku Animation’s annual press conference announced a new slate of animation films, including the big news of the Cang Yuan Tu cinema film project, as well as the three thematic slates of Heirloom Sunrise Starry Night and Sea, which will continue Youku Animation’s national style label while exploring a wider range of themes and forms.

78 Tencent intends to acquire Ubisoft

EVENT REVIEW On October 5, Bloomberg sources said that Tencent and the Guillemot family have been consulting with advisors to explore ways that could stabilize Ubisoft’s share price and boost its market value, and that one of the possibilities being discussed is to join forces to take the company private.

79 The 25th Anniversary of the Voyager Animation Goes Online

Event Review On October 20, the 25th anniversary of the Nautical King anime, ONE PIECE Fan Letter, was released, based on the short story ONE PIECE novel Straw Hat Tales written by Chihito Osaki, which describes the members of the Straw Hat Pirates from the point of view of the general public.

80 Runway releases AI motion capture technology Act one

Event Review On October 23, AI video tool Runway announced the introduction of Act One, a technology that allows users to upload an action video to drive a character to perform the same action.

81 Suddenly look back Continental box office box office broke 30 million in 3 days of release

Event Review On October 26, the animated movie Suddenly Looking Back was released in the national Yilian special line, and the box office broke 30 million after 3 days. The movie is adapted by Fujimoto Tree’s short cartoon of the same name, which tells the growth path of two girls who love to create cartoons.

82 Sony shut down Starlight Special Attack developer Firewalk Studios

Event Review On October 30, it was reported that Sony Interactive Entertainment announced via internal email that it would shut down Firewalk Studios as the developer of Starburst, as well as Neon Koi Studios, which was in charge of the mobile game business.

83 Maiden Frontier Official Announcement of Service Suspension

Event Review On October 31, the first generation of the well-known domestic secondary yuan game Maiden Frontier released a notice announcing that the national service will be discontinued at the end of the year, and plans to re-present it in another form.

November

84 T1 Club won the 5th champion of League of Legends Global Finals.

Event Review On November 2, T1, led by South Korea’s Faker, defeated BLG from China’s LPL 3-2 in the League of Legends Global Finals at the O2 Arena in London, England, to win the Summoner’s Trophy for the fifth time.

85 Battle of the Twin Cities 2 Opens, Allegedly Sucks, Costs $250 Million to Produce and Market

Event Review From November 7 to November 23, the second season of the League of Legends worldview animation Battle of the Twin Cities aired, but the ending of the second season failed to meet expectations, and many viewers have said that the plot The tiger’s head is a snake’s tail .

On December 24, Bloomberg said that the two seasons of Fighter Games’ animated series Battle of the Bastards cost as much as $250 million, or about 1.825 billion yuan, to produce and market, but ultimately failed to generate enough revenue for the company. Netflix paid $3 million per episode for the series, while Tencent Video paid the same amount for the domestic broadcast. However, this revenue only accounted for 40 percent of the total cost.

86 The Kid I Pushed Manga Ends in Controversy

On November 14, Akira Akasaka and Moego Yokozuna published the final issue of the manga I Push Kids in Young Jump #50, ending its 4.5-year run. The manga’s ending fell short of readers’ expectations and received a large number of bad reviews.

87 Animated movie Dragon Keeper won the Golden Rooster Award.

Event Review On November 16, the 37th Golden Rooster Awards ceremony and the closing ceremony of the 2024 Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival were held in Xiamen, Fujian Province. The animated movie Dragon Keeper won the Best Art Film Award at the 37th Golden Rooster Awards.

88 The Summer of the Mermaids Puffing, Scare Yourself Explosion

Event Review On November 22nd, the animated film Summer of the Mermaids was released, with a cumulative box office of just over one million dollars. But because the movie was so gripping, the clip of the mermaid scaring herself became a hot topic on the Internet, triggering many bloggers to imitate it.

89 White Nights Aurora, out of service.

Event Review On November 25th, White Night Aurora released a notice announcing that the game will stop operating in mainland China on January 24th, 2025, and that it will provide players with compensation activities for the suspension of service, as well as a special offline version of the game that retains the characters of the Light Spirit and the fashion data, and a corresponding compensation plan for the non-consumption of tokens.

90 China’s Switch will stop service in 2026

Event Review On November 26, Tencent announced that from 2026, it will gradually discontinue the eShop store and other network services, including game downloads and code redemption.

91 Tencent Holdings Kulo, Hero Games Exits

Event Review On November 27, the shareholding of Guangzhou Kulo Technology Co., Ltd, which produces Mingchao, changed, with Hero Hub withdrawing from Kulo and Tencent becoming the only external shareholder of Kulo, with a combined shareholding of more than 51%, making it officially in a controlling position.

92 AI version of trip love resurrection

Event review November 30, AIChannel trip love official account released Can you wake me up video, which trip love AI in the form of video sound performance, countdown preview in February 26 next year, there are major activities. However, the person in Trip Ai has already left the company, and it is still debatable how Trip AI will make a comeback in the future.

December

93 King of Glory Star of Dawn Stop Test Refunds

Event Review On December 3, Star Dawn officially announced that it will stop the advance test on December 6 and refund all top-up fees during the test period.

94 Crayon Shin-chan in Racer

Event Review On December 6, the official IP of Crayon Shin-chan entered the short video platform for the first time, and carried out relevant content updates in Shutterstock.

95 Ne Zha’s Magic Boy Haunts the Sea is scheduled for the first day of Chinese New Year.

Event Review On December 10, the sequel to the box office champion Nezha’s Magic Boy, Nezha’s Magic Boy Happens, was officially announced to join the Chinese New Year’s Eve slot, in anticipation of a new turnaround in the downturn of the domestic animated film market.

96 TGA Game of the Year Awarded to Cosmic Robots

Event Review On December 13th, the TGA 2024 Awards Ceremony officially came to an end. The much-anticipated Black Myth Goku, after winning the Best Action Game Voice of the Player, regrettably missed the Game of the Year Award, which was won by Cosmic Robot.

97 Dueling Peaks M6 World Finals ends with Fnatic Onic PH winning the title

Event Review On December 15, Mobile Legends Bang Bang, or MLBB M6 World Finals wrapped up in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the Athorn Stadium, with Fnatic Onic PH winning the championship with a total score of 4 1 over Team Liquid Indonesia.

98 Sony becomes Kadokawa’s largest corporate shareholder

Event Review On December 19, Sony announced that it had signed a strategic capital and business alliance agreement with Kadokawa, which will be in the form of a third-party allotment of 12,054,100 new shares of Kadokawa to be acquired by Sony on January 7, 2025 for 50 billion yen, after which Sony will become Kadokawa’s largest corporate shareholder, with a stake of approximately 10 .

99 B station national creation conference, announced 43 new works

Event Review On December 21, B station held the 2024 2025 national creation animation works conference, announced new works including Mortal Xiu Xian Biography Cameo Heroes X Time Agent Yingdu Chapter China Wonderland 2 and other new works.

100 Xuanji Technology Strikes New Third Board

Event Review On December 27, Hangzhou Xuanji Technology Co., Ltd. disclosed its public transfer prospectus and will soon be listed on the New Third Board. According to the public transfer prospectus, from January to June 2024, Xuanji Technology had a revenue of 126 million yuan and a net profit of 6,761,400 yuan.