Thunder’s failure IPO was the saddest thing last week. Though Thunder’s user base is very large and they have a monopoly on downloading services in China, foreign investors are still very cautious when making decisions. Thunder plans to enter the online video industry which has already been led by Youku; It is more feasible for Thunder to enter the game industry while the PE is very low.

Changyou’s Duke of Mount Deer has grown very quickly since its release. The game’s servers increased 68 sets on the first day and the total number is 96. Ads on 17173.com were all about Duke of Mount Deer that day, which shows Changyou attach great importance to the game.

Last week, several research companies released reports on games and mobile Internet, which are worth to look at. Mobile games have developed many years in China, but the focus is still not on smart phones.

China Mobile collected Android games globally, 100,000 RMB for each. China Mobile is about to take an active role in the Android market and enhance its competitiveness. China Union has launched its own operation system.

Sina Weibo launched micro gaming platform. Many social game companies are paying close attention to Sina, whose stock price raised from 40 dollars to 114 dollars because of its Weibo.

Tencent’s Legends of League had received 700,000 players online simultaneously last week, which would also enter into the Korean market soon. NBA2K online has opened its beta test. E-sports games in South Korea are controlled by Blizzard’s games, while Tencent is making its best to be the largest e-sports game company in China. E-sports games are the most popular and most profitable games in China, which is totally different from western markets.

It is expected that Thunder will be officially listed this week. Their first FPS game Final Combat is being tested and many people look forward to its success. Finally we see Thunder is throwing itself into game business actively.

Sina is going to launch the Wei Credit system in Q3. Sina had previously claimed to launch a gaming platform, which would be free for only one year and then it would turn into a commercial social network. Developers who wish to join in should speed up; otherwise they will miss the opportunity.

Tencent had launched another open gaming platform based on mobile browser last week. Tencent is becoming China’s largest mobile social gaming platform, which will result in a quite different mobile social gaming market from western countries.

Shanda Games had launched its light social/web game studio “UUGame” in a high-profile. Shanda had also claimed acquiring mobile game companies before. Tencent, Shanda , Perfect World and Changyou had all entered the strategic execution phase. Game giants have already started the war on social games, mobile games and web games.

There was a lot of news about Tencent last week. Tencent’s VP once said that Tencent would step into an investment period. In the first half of this year, it put much money in games, group shopping, online traveling and movies & TV. Each investment was over US$10 million. Besides, it was quite a shock to know that Tencent invested Kingsoft.