This kind of battle fighting game is definitely a coin-swallowing weapon, especially when it comes to players versus players, and it can score points in a very short period of time. And once the players are competitive with each other, it won't take long to swallow up a lot of in-game currency. In another time and space, the ancestor of the fighting game was Konami Company's Kung Fu, which was released in 1985. The original Street Fighter didn't hit the market until 1987, but unfortunately the arcade craze in North America had subsided by then.

Without the support of the largest market in the United States, the entire arcade industry has irreversibly weakened. The reasons for the decay of the arcade are complex, but there are two things that are most important. The first is because the retail landscape in the United States changed in the second half of the eighties. Many grocery stores and laundries, which operated arcade machines, quickly went bankrupt under the competition of large supermarket chains such as Wal-Mart. The second point is that due to the rapid development of the personal computer industry, computer games have gradually replaced the originally popular arcade games.

This is an irreversible trend, Li Xuan is powerless to change, so he can only work hard to adapt. Japanese game companies, which were brilliant in the 80s, missed the development opportunity in the field of computer games, so that European and American game companies rose rapidly and carved up the biggest fat in the game industry.

Wouldn't make that mistake, Oriental Games began launching computer copies of its games two years ago. Although the current sales of game floppy disks are still a little insignificant compared to the sales of arcades, handhelds, and FC game consoles, this is a tentacle that Li Xuan has extended in the computer game industry.

"Boss, there's something I need to report to you!" Coming out of the game test area, Du Wenqiang quickly changed from his original hippie smile to a stern one.

Li Xuan looked at him. Looking at his slightly gloomy face, I guessed that this was definitely not good news. So he nodded. Follow Du Wenqiang to his office first.

"There was a leak of Yan zhòng in the company, and an insider was suspected of revealing information about a number of new games we are developing to the outside world!" Du Wenqiang's words quickly made Li Xuan frown.

"How did you find out?" asked Li Xuan.

"This inner ghost's name is Xia Changying. I was recruited to the company last year. He graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic with a major in electronics, and after joining the company, he was assigned to the hardware department, responsible for the development and design of arcade boards. Since last month, he has been a frequent onlooker in the company's new playtest area. It also seems to ask other people all kinds of questions about multiple new games, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

You know, our game development department has a very strict confidentiality system, and everyone knows very well which issues need to be taboo. Even if you're going to give some good advice to other teams, you just need to explain what you see and think, and you shouldn't go into the details of other projects.

His many inappropriate inquiries quickly attracted the attention of several R&D staff, so the situation was quickly reported to me. After nearly a week of tracking, we finally found out that when he was talking to a mysterious person, it involved the development data and progress of many of our new games!" Du Wenqiang said with a heavy heart.

The Information Security Department is a special department within Dongfang Electronics Co., Ltd., which is responsible for preventing abnormal business competition methods of competitors, and eliminating commercial espionage is one of its important responsibilities. In order to ensure that the company's interests are not harmed, it usually resorts to extreme measures, such as eavesdropping on employees who are on the suspicion list.

Eavesdropping is certainly illegal, and if exposed, it can cause serious damage to the company's reputation. So on the face of it. The Department of Information Security only cooperates with a detective agency that has nothing to do with Dongfang Electronics. These unclean actions were carried out by the detective agency. Once there is a problem, Dongfang Electronics can completely break its arms to survive and push the responsibility away.

But actually. This detective agency, registered in the Cayman Islands, has a close relationship with Oriental Electronics. In addition to guarding against the attacks of competitors, Dongfang Electronics will also use some shady means to use it.

Like last year. The Department of Information Security successfully bought an employee of Microsoft to inform the progress of MS-DOS. Finally, the progress of the development of IBM's PC was deduced. As a result, the ABC-3 computer was the first to go on the market, and it sniped the PC that could have become popular.

"Originally, we wanted to follow the vine. Catch the protagonist behind the scenes. But the other party is obviously very well guarded, and the person in charge of connecting with Xia Changying is just a little Luo. We eavesdropped on this little Luo and found out that his superior was from Japan. But through our colleagues in Japan, we tracked it down, and every time we called a phone number from Hong Kong, it was a public phone using a street phone booth!" Du Wenqiang shook his head a little depressed and said.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there may be other Japanese game companies that want to copy our ideas!" Li Xuan said with a smile, "What are you going to do?"

"According to the information we have learned from eavesdropping, Xia Chang should hand over a batch of game materials to his family in two days. We have already called the police, and when the time comes, the police will take the scene to arrest each other, and come and get all the stolen goods!" Du Wenqiang said viciously.

This is the first time that the Eastern Group has encountered commercial spies, and Li Xuan thought that the most likely to be snooped on should be the Oriental Research Institute. After all, there are many valuable scientific research projects there, but I didn't expect that the first to be attacked was the game company. It can also be seen how much pressure Oriental Game Company exerts on other competitors in the industry!

"What is the reason why this Xia Chang should turn against the water?" Li Xuan asked curiously.

Because of its strong profitability, Oriental Game Company has a very good internal welfare package. Especially for game developers, if the team they join develops a hot-selling game, the sales dividends given by the company can instantly double everyone's net worth.

For example, the arcade R&D team that developed the "Kung Fu" game, several of the main creators received more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars in dividends last year. This also makes the loyalty of the employees of Oriental Games Company very high, although the outside world has launched a fierce poaching, but the real core R & D talents have almost not been lost.

"It seems that his family had an accident not long ago, and his parents were in a car accident on the way out. His father suffered a fractured vertebrae, and even if he invited a well-known foreign specialist to come to Hong Kong for surgery, the probability of avoiding paralysis was only 20%. And her mother has comminuted fractures in both legs, and the lower half of her body can only rely on a wheelchair to move!" Du Wenqiang was also a little more gloomy in his words, and the resentment in his eyes against the bone boy was not as strong as it was at the beginning. (To be continued......)