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Tencent has not acquired a 5% stake in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 29, 2017
2 min

Tencent has not invested in Bluehole Studio, the company that makes PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. News reports out of South Korea yesterday claimed that Tencent had...

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Switch gets Tencent’s Arena of Valor mobile MOBA

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 13, 2017
1 min

Chinese gaming giant Tencent is making Nintendo games now. Switch is getting Arena of Valor, which is Tencent’s multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for...

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USC film school taps ex-THQ exec Danny Bilson to run games division

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
July 28, 2017
12 min

The University of Southern California has always had a stellar reputation as being one of the best game design schools in the nation, and...

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China’s Tencent to limit children’s time playing Honour of Kings to curb addiction

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 3, 2017
2 min

(Reuters) — Tencent Holdings, China’s biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, said it will limit play time for some young users of...

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Rocket League studio Psyonix loves Switch, live services, and working with Tencent

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
June 27, 2017
6 min

Rocket League is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year, and I played it at the Electronic Entertainment Expo game industry event in...

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Red Dead Redemption 2 will now debut on October 26.

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Grand Theft Auto Online gives Take-Two breathing room as it awaits Red Dead Redemption 2

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 19, 2017
9 min

Take-Two Interactive’s stock price took a short dip in May after its Rockstar Games label delayed its much-awaited Western video game Red Dead Redemption...

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Kabam’s leaders offer mobile gaming lessons and a bittersweet goodbye

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
June 9, 2017
14 min

Kabam was one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories of modern gaming. Founded in 2008 by former University of California at Berkeley students, it...