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Tencent Launches New Games Publishing Brand Level Infinite

Tencent Games has announced the launch of Level Infinite, a new brand dedicated to delivering high-quality games to a global audience. Level Infinite is based in Amsterdam and Singapore with staff around the world. It will provide studio support and services, from technology to production assistance, “Games as a Service” (GaaS) and loca...

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China Asks Game Companies To End Focus On Profits & Axe Effeminate Imagery Of Men

In a move that's sure to baffle many people outside of China, China's government and authorities are ordering game companies and giants to end their focus on profits and cut content perceived to be breeding "effeminacy". Said giants include Tencent and NetEase, the biggest players in mobile gaming and gaming in general since almost all their big...

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Blackpink Is Entering Your PUBG Area… Again

Blackpink in your area. In your PUBG area. Again. That's right. After collaborating with PUBG Mobile last year, the popular K-Pop group is once again partnering with PUBG but this time for PC and consoles (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S). The PUBG Blackpink event will run between 8 August and 7 September 2021, and there will be special miss...

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Tencent To Acquire LittleBigPlanet 3 Developer Sumo

Tencent has announced that they will acquire Sumo Group, the UK developer behind LittleBigPlanet 3 and Sackboy A Big Adventure. The China-based megacorporation is reportedly spending US$1.26 billion for the acquisition. Tencent already owns League Of Legends studio Riot Games and has shares in several other video game companies. These include Ep...

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Children Playing Games At Night? Not Anymore, Tencent Is Watching

Big Brother is watching, or rather, Tencent is watching. The China-based gaming giant has launched a controversial new technology to stop children and teenagers from excessively playing games throughout the nighttime. How? They have unleashed a time-sensitive facial recognition system that will identify minors who play the game between 10pm to 8...

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Uncapped Games Is A New RTS-Making Studio Led By Blizzard Veterans

Tencent subsidiary Lightspeed & Quantum Studios has announced the founding of a new studio led by renowned Blizzard veterans: Uncapped Games. Uncapped Games is run by Blizzard veterans, lead designer David Kim and lead producer Jason Hughes, with the company focused on making "action-packed real-time strategy games" for PC. Its first-ever pr...

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Tencent In Talks With USA To Keep Its Riot & Epic Stakes

As we all know, giant Chinese tech company Tencent has its hands and fingers on every tech pie worldwide. Chief among them is Epic and Riot Games, as the conglomerate has stakes in both companies. A new Reuters report states that Tencent Holdings is talking with the United States' Committee on Foreign Investment since late 2020 to make sure it c...

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Ubisoft’s Just Dance Crosses Over With Tencent’s Peacekeeper Elite

Ubisoft and Tencent are working together on an official collaboration, with the Chinese version of Just Dance on Nintendo Switch crossing over with battle royale game Peacekeeper Elite (which is only available in China). According to video games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this is an example of how Tencent is trying to integrate it...

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The ePremier League Is Expanding Into China

It was announced late last year that the ePremier League is returning for its third year and season in 2021, offering UK-based players of FIFA 21 the chance to represent their favourite Premier League club in a virtual football tournament. Now, the ePremier League has announced that it is expanding into China. According to the press release (via...

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PUBG Mobile Crosses Over With Gundam In China

China's version of PUBG Mobile is celebrating its second anniversary with an official collaboration with Mobile Suit Gundam SEED. No other details have been revealed as of yet, but players of the game in China can expect to see a large Gundam in the Erangel map. It's currently unclear if this Gundam content will arrive in PUBG Mobile outside of ...

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Apex Legends Mobile Specs & Details Leaked

We still don't know much about Apex Legends Mobile, despite being initially announced back in 2019. However, EA teased in 2020 that they were working with a partner in China on the mobile version of the popular free-to-play battle royale game. We might finally know who they were talking about back then. According to multiple sources (via IGN Ind...

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Tencent Owns Minority Stake In Dontnod, The Folks Behind Life Is Strange

Developer Dontnod just got the extra funding they needed to create their future dream adventure projects. Or at least, a new IP from their paymasters. Turns out Tencent has purchased a minority stake in the Life is Strange/Tell Me Why/Remember Me developer, all to create a new IP. How much does this cost Tencent? About US$36 million, which may b...

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Nintendo Switch China Sales Reach Major Milestone

Nintendo and Tencent have announced that they have shipped more than one million Nintendo Switch consoles in China. This is about a year and more after the hybrid console officially launched in China back in December 2019, about two years later than the rest of the world. According to Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad (via Reuters), these offic...

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Huawei Is Removing Tencent Games From Its App Store

2021 has finally hit, and we already have a gamechanger of a story. Tencent's games have been removed from Huawei's app store due to both companies failing to reach an agreement on revenue sharing. "Due to the failure of Huawei’s mobile game platform to renew its contract with our Mobile Game Promotion Project Agreement as scheduled, r...

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Tencent Acquires Warframe & Gears Tactics Developers

Tencent has acquired Leyou Technologies for a whopping US$1.5 billion deal. It was signed-off by Leyou shareholders on 11 December 2020 and finalised today. Weirdly enough, Leyou Technologies was previously a chicken processing company. It only started to enter the world of videogames by acquiring a majority stake in Warframe developer Digital ...

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Tencent’s Streaming App Launches On Nintendo Switch In China

Tencent has launched its streaming app, Tencent Video, on Nintendo Switch in China. Tencent Video is a video streaming app like that of Netflix or Disney Plus, offering a wide variety of local and international streaming content. https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1323916212548620289 This move by the conglomerate is a huge one, considering...

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Tencent Is Massively Funding China-Based Esports Organizer VSPN

Esports is starting to pick up again amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. China-based esports organizer VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised a whopping US$100 million in Series B funding. The biggest contributor to the funds is Tencent, but other investors include Tiantu Capital, SIG (Susquehanna International Group), and Kuaishou. The...

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PUBG Cuts Ties With India’s Tencent: What’s Next?

Last week, the government of India officially banned over 118 Chinese apps, including (most notably) PUBG Mobile. Now, in an attempt to salvage the game's presence in the country, South Korean developer PUBG Corporation has announced that Tencent will no longer be the publisher for the mobile battle royale game in India. For the past several ye...

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India Bans PUBG Mobile & A Hundred Chinese Apps

India has banned PUBG Mobile, Alipay, Baidu and more, for a total of 118 Chinese apps, This comes only a month since the Indian government was rumoured to be considering banning PUBG Mobile after having banned other Chinese apps such as TikTok and Mobile Legends. In a statement (via Nikkei Asian Review), the Indian government said that the M...

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Massive PUBG Mobile 1.0 Update Is Dropping Next Month

PUBG Mobile is getting a major 1.0 update that promises huge boosts to performance and other benefits just in time for a planned US$2 million esports tournament set to kick off in November 2020. The PUBG Mobile team, which is part of Chinese tech and gaming giant Tencent, stated that the PUBG Mobile 1.0 update is scheduled for release on ...

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