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Tencent will launch Arena of Valor’s World Cup tournament

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 2, 2018
1 min

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...

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Archangel was Skydance Interactive's debut VR game.

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Tencent invests in film and VR maker Skydance Media

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 25, 2018
2 min

Tencent Holdings is investing an undisclosed amount of money in Skydance Media, a Hollywood entertainment studio that makes everything from Terminator movies to the...

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Hero Academy 2 launches on PC early access, iOS, and Android

Posted byby Jason Wilson
January 17, 2018
3 min

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...

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GamesBeat Summit 2018 speakers — Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar, Brianna Wu, and Tencent’s Dan Brody

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 11, 2018
5 min

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...

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Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $48.3 billion in 2017

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 6, 2018
2 min

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...

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Arena of Valor launches December 19 on iOS and Android in North and South America

Posted byby GamesBeat
December 18, 2017
1 min

Earlier this year, Chinese gaming giant Tencent opened up North America registration for its hit mobile multiplayer online battle arena Arena of Valor —...

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds mobile: 100 battle royale clones jump onto an island

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 28, 2017
2 min

Tencent is bringing PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to mobile as part of its deal with the Bluehole Games and its new in-house studio, The PUBG Corporation,...

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Tencent gets exclusive rights to operate PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
November 22, 2017
2 min

It’s just like everyone always says in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds: China No. 1. Internet megacorp Tencent has revealed that it will have the exclusive rights...