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Animoca Brands signs deal with Tencent to distribute a mobile game in Asia

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Animoca Brands has signed a deal with Asian gaming giant Tencent to distribute the Armies of Dragons tower defense game in Asia on the WeChat social messenger platform.

Asia Pacific is considered the world’s largest market for the mobile game industry. In 2014, the region’s 760 million mobile gamers generated $13.6 billion in revenue, accounting for 55 percent of the global mobile gaming market, according to the 2015 Global Mobile Game Industry Whitebook.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.