China could pose a national security risk to the United States with its escalating purchase of gaming designing companies, warns Anders Corr, publisher of the Journal of Political Risk.
Tencent Holdings Ltd. and NetEase Inc., both Chinese mega-tech companies, have expanded their gaming studios in the United States, Canada, Japan, and France.
Last year, NetEase established game design companies in France with Quantic Dream, in the United States with Jackalope Games and Jar of Sparks, and in Japan with Nagoshi Studio and GPTrack50. All of these were its initial design ventures within these nations.
Canada’s Skybox Labs, which contributed to the creation of popular video games including Age of Empires, Fallout 76, Halo Infinite, and Minecraft, is the most recent studio to enter China’s sphere of influence….