Tencent acquires Back 4 Blood and Left 4 Dead dev Turtle Rock Studios
Tencent today announced it has acquired Slamfire Inc., the parent company of game developer Turtle Rock Studios. Turtle Rock is best known as the...
Tencent Games reveals Level Infinite publishing brand
Tencent Games today announced a new publishing label under which it’ll be publishing several new games. The new studio is based in Amsterdam and...
Tencent keeps investing in PUBG Mobile esports in the Americas
PUBG Mobile is a huge gaming property with more than $6 billion in lifetime player spending. And while much of that success has been...
Niko Partners: Asia’s cloud gaming addressable market will triple to 500M by 2025
Cloud gaming could reach an addressable market of about 150 million people in 2021, but actual numbers of cloud gaming users are smaller than...
TiMi Studios prepares to launch Contra Returns on mobile
Chinese game developer TiMi Studios Group has announced that Contra Returns will debut this summer. The official “preregistration” begins today for the run-‘n’-gun action...
Tencent seeks the best indies for Games Without Borders Awards
Tencent is busy taking applications for its fourth annual Tencent Games Without Borders Awards, which celebrates the best indie games from around the world....
Beyond localization: How to adapt your games for a global audience
It’s challenging enough for publishers and developers to launch a game in their home territory and have it become a success. But trying to...
How Warframe maker Digital Extremes aims to thrive under Tencent
Tencent picked up a lot of game properties this month when it acquired Leyou Technologies, a Hong Kong-based game company, for $1.5 billion. Among...
Hermitage creator Arrowiz partners with Tencent for next game
Arrowiz, maker of Hermitage Strange Case Files, has partnered with Tencent and a major Western publisher for its next game. The Shanghai-based Arrowiz said...
What a U.S. ban on Tencent may mean for the online game industry
The U.S.-China trade war has taken another turn after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will put an end to WeChat...