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Chief executive of Game of Thrones game publisher Yoozoo lands in hospital as Shanghai police probe poisoning case
- Yoozoo, known as the game developer of Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming, said its founder and CEO Lin Qi has been hospitalised
- Shanghai police announced an investigation into a suspected poisoning case involving a victim surnamed Lin
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Lin Qi, the chairman and chief executive of the Chinese games publisher Yoozoo, has been hospitalised in what the Shanghai police characterised as suspected poisoning, in a case that has gripped China’s social media.
Lin, 39, visited a Shanghai hospital on December 16 after experiencing “acute symptoms of illness,” according to a WeChat statement by Youzu Interactive, as Yoozoo is also called. Lin is currently under treatment and his condition is stable, the company said.
Shanghai’s police said in a blog post on Weibo that Lin’s 39-year-old male colleague, identified only by his surname Xu, is suspected to be the culprit.
Lin, a Chinese gaming tycoon, has a net worth estimated at 6.8 billion yuan (US$1 billion), according to the Hurun China Rich List. Founded in 2009, Yoozoo is best known outside China as the developer of Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming, a strategy game for smartphones and personal computers based on the HBO hit series. It is also the co-publisher of Supercell’s smash-hit game Brawl Stars with Tencent Holdings in China.
While it is mainly a games publisher, Yoozoo holds the dramatisation right to turn the acclaimed Chinese science fiction Three-Body Problem into movies. In September, it granted US streaming platform Netflix the right to adapt the novel for television.
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