King of Glory from Tencent is a mobile take on its megapopular PC game League of Legends.
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45% of top-100 Android-game revenues in China belong to Tencent

  • Posted byby Jeff Grubb
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The company that owns League of Legends and has a minority stake in Unreal Engine also owns an enormous chunk of the Chinese Android gaming market.

King of Glory is the top-grossing game in China on Android as it has made MOBAs work on smartphones and tablets.
King of Glory is the top-grossing game in China on Android as it has made MOBAs work on smartphones and tablets.

Tencent accounts for 44.5 percent of all the revenue spent on the top 100 highest-grossing Android games in China, according to a joint intelligence report from research firms Newzoo and TalkingData. The international conglomerate publishes 23 of the 100 top-performing games. In 2016, China is on pace to generate $7 billion in mobile gaming revenues, which puts it ahead of the United States and Japan as the top market for in the world.

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