NetEase Cloud Music
Chinese music streaming service
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| 2025 | NetEase Games publishes 'FragPunk', a video game developed by Bad Guitar Studio |
| 2025 | NetEase reported to be shopping around its non-Chinese studios and looking to divest foreign investments. |
| 2025 | NetEase Games will publish Rusty Rabbit by Nitroplus |
| January 2025 | Jar Of Sparks was shut down. |
| 2024 | NetEase Games is set to release Bloodstrike, Once Human, and Marvel Rivals across multiple platforms |
| November 2024 | Mac Walters' company, Worlds Untold, had operations paused. |
| November 2024 | Humanoid Origin was shut down. |
| August 2024 | Ouka Studios was shut down after Square Enix completed Visions of Mana. |
| February 2024 | David Vonderhaar opened BulletFarm. |
| 2023 | NetEase Games published Dead by Daylight Mobile in China |
| November 2023 | Greg Street established Fantastic Pixel Castle. Mac Walters' Worlds Untold company was 'paused'. |
| November 2023 | Greg Street established Fantastic Pixel Castle. |
| August 2023 | T-Minus Zero Entertainment was opened by Jeff Dobson, Scott Malone, Mark Tucker, and Rich Vogel. |
| August 2023 | NetEase launched an American game studio led by veterans from Bethesda and BioWare game development studios. |
| May 2023 | Sean Crooks opened Bad Brain Game Studios, and Ryutaro Ichimura established PinCool. |
| May 18 2023 | Jackalope Games was renamed to Jackalyptic Games and formed a partnership with Games Workshop. |
| April 2023 | NetEase opened Anchor Point Studios. |
| March 2023 | NetEase launched the Anici anime brand. |
| March 2023 | NetEase launched the Anici anime brand for creating animations for various partners. |
| February 2023 | NetEase opened the studio Spliced. |
| January 2023 | NetEase acquired the studio Skybox Labs. |
| January 23 2023 | NetEase and Blizzard's licensing agreement expired, leading to the termination of most game services in China. |
| 2022 | Riot Games sued NetEase over alleged copyright violation concerning the Valorant game. |
| 2022 | NetEase Games released Diablo Immortal in collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment, along with other titles like Eggy Party, Hyper Front, and Lost Light |
| December 2022 | Reached over 611,000 registered artists, growing from 450,000 independent musicians registered earlier in the year. |
| November 2022 | NetEase made a strategic investment with Rebel Wolves, founded by former CD Projekt employee Konrad Tomaszkiewicz. |
| November 17 2022 | NetEase announced the suspension of Blizzard game services in China, including Overwatch 2, Diablo III, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm. |
| October 2022 | Hiroyuki Kobayashi, a former Capcom producer, established GPTRACK50 Studio. |
| September 6 2022 | Toshinori Aoki and Toshimichi Mori opened Studio Flare, which was later acquired by NetEase. |
| August 2022 | NetEase acquired Quantic Dream after a previous minority investment in 2019. |
| July 18 2022 | Jerry Hook, a former 343 Industries employee, established Jar Of Sparks. |
| June 2022 | NetEase Cloud Music reported a 57% increase in social entertainment service and other revenue, reaching $2.48 billion in the first half of the year, highlighting the platform's successful expansion of social entertainment features like live streaming, virtual items, and online karaoke. |
| May 18 2022 | Jack Emmert's game studio was renamed from Jackalope Games to Jackalyptic Games, establishing a partnership with Games Workshop. |
| 2021 | NetEase Games launched several games including Ace Racer, Naraka: Bladepoint, Astracraft (discontinued on 21 December 2022), and The Lord of the Rings: Rise to War |
| October 2021 | NetEase acquired Grasshopper Manufacture from GungHo Online Entertainment. |
| June 2021 | Casey Hudson established Humanoid Origin. |
| May 13 2021 | NetEase, The Pokémon Company, and Game Freak released an expanded version of Pokémon Quest called Pokémon Adventure in China. |
| 2020 | NetEase Games published Marvel Duel and the Android/iOS ports of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night |
| November 8 2020 | The term 'NetEmo' was selected as one of the 'China's Top 10 Trending Words in 2020' by Youth Digest magazine, highlighting the cultural impact of the NetEase Depression Cloud phenomenon. |
| October 2020 | NetEase was ordered by the Cyberspace Administration of China to undergo rectification and temporarily suspend certain comment functions after inappropriate comments were found on their news app. |
| August 2020 | NetEase announced a capital and business alliance with anime studio Satelight. |
| August 3 2020 | NetEase Cloud Music officially launched a campaign to 'cure comments' addressing feigned depression and providing emotional support to users struggling with mental health issues. |
| June 2020 | NetEase opened Ouka Studios. |
| June 30 2020 | NetEase shut down the Chinese third-party Minecraft Hypixel server. |
| January 2020 | NetEase discussed potential secondary listings with the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. |
| 2019 | NetEase Games published several notable titles including Cyber Hunter, Sky (in China), Marvel Super War, and Super Mecha Champions (which would be discontinued on 20 January 2025) |
| 2018 | NetEase Games launched multiple games including Creative Destruction, Galactic Frontline (closed in 2020), Identity V, and LifeAfter |
| December 2018 | NetEase invested in Aurora 44 in New Zealand and sold comic books to Bilibili. |
| October 2018 | NetEase assumed the publishing of Eve Online in the Chinese market. |
| June 2018 | China's 'Fight Pornography and Illegality' office interviewed NetEase Cloud Music leadership and demanded they clean up ASMR content considered pornographic or vulgar, requiring strengthened content supervision and review. |
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