Pirates hijacking mobile phone game market

Peter Vesterbacka, whose company Rovio makes the immensely popular game Angry Birds, says that console games are "dying", but games on smartphones and tablet computers also face a crisis in China - from pirates.

The latest statistics by IIMEDIA Marketing Consultation Group show that China had a domestic mobile Internet market worth 10.8 billion yuan ($1.7 billion) in the third quarter of this year, and the mobile games industry contributed 10.3 percent of the figure.

But it also noted that only 1.4 percent of the mobile games used in China are legal versions.