{"id":217843,"date":"2020-06-15T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/06\/15\/netease-develops-new-lord-of-the-rings-mobile-game-with-warner-bros\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:12:03","slug":"netease-develops-new-lord-of-the-rings-mobile-game-with-warner-bros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/06\/15\/netease-develops-new-lord-of-the-rings-mobile-game-with-warner-bros\/","title":{"rendered":"NetEase develops new \u2018Lord of the   Rings\u2019 mobile game with Warner Bros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/http:\/\/new.nagalandpost.com\/cms\/gall_content\/no_images_650x.jpg><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;Chinese gaming giant NetEase on Monday announced a strategic partnership with Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment to develop a new &ldquo;Lord of the Rings&rdquo; mobile game, bolstering its pipeline following its secondary listing in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The new officially licensed strategy game, &ldquo;The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War&rdquo;, is based on the hugely popular trilogy of books by J.R.R. Tolkien, NetEase said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>NetEase, along with rival Tencent and other gaming firms, have seen games revenue soaring during the COVID-19 pandemic, as people spend more time on their handsets and computers in lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n<p>The release is the latest effort by Chinese game developers to expand beyond their domestic market and follows separate tie-ups by NetEase last year with Marvel and Pokemon Company.<\/p>\n<p>Both Tencent and NetEase have vowed to derive more proceeds from overseas markets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a NetEase executive told Reuters the company hopes overseas revenue will account for 30%of its total in three years.<\/p>\n<p>Nasdaq-listed NetEase raised at least $2.7 billion in a Hong Kong secondary offering last week, saying it would use the money to fund its international expansion plans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Reuters)<\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetEase develops new \u2018Lord of the   Rings\u2019 mobile game with Warner Bros<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}