Former executive given death sentence in poisoning of Chinese gaming company founder

FILE - The Yoozoo logo is displayed at the Yoozoo group headquarters in Shanghai on Dec. 8, 2020. A former executive at Yoozoo Games was sentenced to death on Friday, March 22, 2024, in the 2020 poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company, which has links to Game of Thrones and the new Netflix series, “The Three-Body Problem.

Yoozoo owns the film rights to “The Three-Body Problem,” a best-selling Chinese science fiction trilogy, and Xu headed up a subsidiary in charge of business related to it, according to Chinese media reports. In September 2020, the company granted Netflix the right to produce an adaptation of the trilogy, Chinese state media reported at the time.

Yoozoo, also known as Youzu Interactive, developed “Game of Thrones: Winter Is Coming,” a game based on the TV series.

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Former executive given death sentence in poisoning of founder of high-flying Chinese gaming companyA former executive at Yoozoo Games has been sentenced to death in the poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company. A court says Xu Yao poisoned the food of company founder Lin Qi in December 2020 because of a dispute over the running of the business. Lin died about 10 days later.
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