NetEase powers up to expand thriving mobile business

Chinese publisher NetEase Games is poised to expand its mobile games business in the United States this year following last year's soaring earnings from mobile games.

The company's core business - online gaming - reached $ 4 billion in revenue in 2016, up 61 percent year-on-year, according to the group's full year report. Last October, App Annie ranked the company as the world's top mobile game seller by downloads.

"Reflecting on our own growth over the years, we successfully launched a number of blockbuster mobile games such as Fantasy Westward Journey, which was the best selling mobile game worldwide on iOS in 2016," said Ethan Wang, vice-president of NetEase, Inc.