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Glu Mobile launches Tencent’s WeFire shooter as Rival Fire in the West

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Last year, China’s Tencent invested $126 million for a 15 percent stake in Glu Mobile. The companies began collaborating, and one of the fruits of that labor is debuting today as the Rival Fire mobile shooter game.

The title is one more attempt to take a game global in the $36 billion mobile game industry. Last November, the companies announced that they would take Tencent’s WeFire, which had generated an estimated 20 million downloads in Asia, to the West. And now the companies are taking the third-person shooter to the U.S. under a new name, Rival Fire. The game is a new addition to Glu’s staple of mobile shooter games, which include Deer Hunter 2014, Contract Killer, and Frontline Commando.

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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.