At a glance
- Product
- 10,000+ employees
- Private
- Hangzhou, China
- 11 offices · 7 countries
About
NetEase Games is the online games division of NetEase, Inc., which has published under the NetEase name since at least 1997 according to its site. NetEase, Inc. is a Cayman Islands holding company listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (NTES) and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (9999); its principal executive office is in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and the games business works from its Hangzhou campus.
The division develops and publishes games across genres and platforms. Its titles include Marvel Rivals, Where Winds Meet, Naraka: Bladepoint, Knives Out, Identity V, Once Human and the long-running Fantasy Westward Journey series. Abroad it also runs first-party studios, among them Joker Studio in Montreal, which makes Sea of Remnants.
According to NetEase's annual report on Form 20-F for 2025, the group had 25,382 full-time employees on December 31, 2025, down from 26,028 a year earlier, most of them in China and 47.8% in R&D. NetEase Games does not publish its own headcount. It lists offices in mainland China, Korea, Japan, Singapore, the UK, Canada and the US.
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Gaming