Palworld creator Pocket Pair has teamed up with Tencent Cloud.
Palworld creator Pocket Pair has teamed up with Tencent Cloud.
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Palworld maker Pocketpair teams up with Tencent Cloud so you don’t have to wait for multiplayer servers

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Palworld creator Pocketpair just teamed up with Tencent, the world’s biggest game company on cloud technology.

I’m not sure precisely what that means, but maybe players won’t be waiting for game servers anymore. So long as they don’t get a billion more customers. Palworld, labeled as “Pokemon with guns,” shot from zero to 25 million players in on month. The result was a traffic jam on the internet, which I talked about in this DeanBeat column.

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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.