Ubisoft evades hostile takeover by swapping Vivendi for Tencent
Ubisoft is announcing today that French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi is selling all of its shares in the game maker. This ends Vivendi’s bid to...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds goes live on mobile in regions worldwide (update)
Chinese publisher Tencent has launched one of the biggest PC games in the world on iOS and Android devices around the world. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now available in the iOS App Store and Google Play market in most major regions.
Supercell 2017 results: $810 million in profit, $2 billion in revenue — without a new game
Supercell announced that it earned a profit of $810 million on revenues of $2.029 billion in 2017. That’s an enviable financial accomplishment for a...
Sensor Tower: China and Japan dominate mobile game revenues in January
When it comes to worldwide revenue in mobile games, Chinese and Japanese companies are starting to dominate the charts, according to measurement firm Sensor...
16 predictions for the Chinese and Southeast Asian games industry in 2018
In celebration of 16 years of delivering market intelligence on the Chinese and Greater Southeast Asian digital games industry, we’ve put together 16 predictions...
Tencent will launch Arena of Valor’s World Cup tournament
Tencent already has a PC esports success on its hands with Riot Games’s League of Legends, but it wants to expand into mobile as...
Tencent invests in film and VR maker Skydance Media
Tencent Holdings is investing an undisclosed amount of money in Skydance Media, a Hollywood entertainment studio that makes everything from Terminator movies to the...
Hero Academy 2 launches on PC early access, iOS, and Android
Robot Entertainment has spent the last several years dealing with rampaging humanoids with the Orcs Must Die! franchise. But it also has another well-received...
GamesBeat Summit 2018 speakers — Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar, Brianna Wu, and Tencent’s Dan Brody
There’s just one event where you can find Star Wars: Battlefront II’s star, the games industry’s first major congressional candidate, and one of the...
Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $48.3 billion in 2017
Mobile spending was up across the board globally in 2017 mostly due to games. Total app spend was up 35 percent year-over-year, reaching $58.6...