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Big-Spending Game Developer ZX Rolls the Dice With IPO Plan

Despite benefiting from a gaming surge during Covid lockdowns, the company’s finances still contain some red flags as it eyes a Hong Kong listing.

In 2017, Hong Kong movie star Nick Cheung challenged Chinese gamers to “cross me if you dare,” using a thickly-accented but catchy phrase playing on a popular line from one of his movies. That ignited a craze for “Legend of Lanyue,” the game he was endorsing. Five years later, the game’s operator ZX Inc. is once again throwing out a