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Tencent and Line invest $110M in South Korean game developer

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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4:33 Creative Lab, a South Korean game developer, has raised $110 million from an investment consortium that Tencent and Line Group created.

The developer will make mobile games for messaging services such as Line and Tencent’s WeChat service. Those mobile messaging services are on fire, growing to hundreds of millions of users in regions such as Japan and China. And games that run on top of those services do well because people share them heavily. Messaging services are just any tactic developers use to get their games in front of players in a mobile market that could hit $20 billion or more by the end of the year.

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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.