The North American PUBG Mobile sports event is under way.
The North American PUBG Mobile sports event is under way.
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Tencent keeps investing in PUBG Mobile esports in the Americas

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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PUBG Mobile is a huge gaming property with more than $6 billion in lifetime player spending. And while much of that success has been in Asia, Tencent continues to invest in making the mobile game more popular in North America and Western markets.

One of the ways it is doing that is by investing heavily in PUBG Mobile esports. And the PUBG Mobile Pro League North America 2021 event got underway this weekend. The finals of Season 2 for the Americas event has 20 teams competing for the championship, which has a $6 million prize pool this year, compared to last year’s $2 million pool.

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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.