The latest revenue and earning numbers were revealed for miHoYo‘s blockbuster Genshin Impact. The free-to-play, open world, action RPG, as of March 2021, five months after the release date of Genshin Impact 1.0, has earned over $874 million. Via Sensor Tower. Genshin Impact is currently the third biggest mobile game worldwide. After Honor of Kings
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PUBG is nothing short of a phenomenon. The Battle Royale game kickstarted the genre that is now incredibly popular the world over. The game is in its tenth season and continues to receive updates to keep the game fresh and balanced. After the PC version of the game received version 10.3 at the start of
In a report from Gamesindustry.biz, Tencent has acquired a minority stake in Life is Strange developer Dontnod Entertainment. Tencent’s stake in the Life is Strange developer values at 30 million euros ($36.3 million USD). They’ll now have a seat in Dontnod’s board of directors. Additionally, this move helps the developer inch towards raising 40 million
Klei Entertainment (Don’t Starve, Mark of the Ninja) founder “Bigfoot” made a huge announcement on their official forum: Chinese publisher and distributor Tencent has purchased a majority stake in the studio. The founder further clarified: “As part of this agreement, Klei retains full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including
Marvelous announced that one of its development studios, 1st Studio, is currently recruiting a wide range of developers, in order to strengthen its planning and development of next gen games, most notably on PS5 and Xbox series X. 1st Studio handled many games at Marvelous, such as Daemon x Machina, the Fate/Extella series, and the
Marvelous says Rune Factory 5 is still coming in 2020 in Japan on Switch, surprisingly. Marvelous, like many other Japanese game companies, published a new financial report a few days ago. Now, my paycheck isn’t big enough to give you a full summary of the report with the actual numbers, but as you can guess
Since April 2019, ex PlatinumGames Producer Yusuke Hashimoto has been teasing on social media an original concept he’s working on titled Noah. Hashimoto actually didn’t say anything about Noah besides sharing artwork, which he uses as Twitter avatar and banner, so we don’t even know if Noah is actually a game concept or something else.
The Tencent Games Annual Conference 2020 happened on June 27, with multiple new announcements from the biggest games company in the world. We’ve rounded up everything below. Metal Slug Code: J (Release Date: 2020) Metal Slug Code: J is coming to iOS and Android in 2020. It’s developed by TiMi Studios of the Tencent group.
While many expected to see a new entry revealed in the Pokemon Let’s Go series or perhaps another remake of Pokemon games from the past, instead, today’s latest announcement involving the beloved monster-catching franchise went in a completely different direction. Shown off in this morning’s live stream, the latest installment in the long-lasting franchise is that
Marvelous announced on May 25 that Tencent will buy 20% stake in the Japanese studio, thus owning 20% of the studio. Tencent, which is China’s biggest gaming company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Image Frame Investment, will spend around 7 billion Yen ($65 million) on Marvelous. This will allow Marvelous to expand its existing IPs and
UPDATE: It seems that the System Shock IP still is fully in the hands of Nightdive Studios, meaning that Tencent doesn’t own the rights to the entire franchise. Nightdive’s CEO clarified as much on Twitter just recently. @Nibellion Nightdive owns the System Shock franchise and IP, please don’t spread misinformation. — Stephen Kick (@pripyatbeast) May 20, 2020
PlatinumGames is having a pretty good year so far. In fact, the past couple of years have been good for the emergent Japanese studio. They’ve published multiple critically acclaimed titles: Bayonetta, Astral Chain, and NeiR Automata all come to mind. So why are there rumors of Microsoft passing over the company last year in their search for Xbox Series
PlatinumGames announced on January 7 the studio has received a capital investment from Tencent Holdings Ltd, entering a business alliance with the Chinese game company. PlatinumGames mentioned this alliance will strengthen its foundations, and allow the studio to work towards self-publishing the games it develops in the future. Lastly, PlatinumGames will keep striving to create
Chinese publishing studio Tencent Interactive Entertainment released a trailer for a new mobile game they are currently developing. What makes this particular title so noteworthy is how inspired it seems to be by Western games in the same genre such as Days Gone, Metal Gear Survive, Left for Dead, and State of Decay. According to
The League of Legends player base is already massive as it currently stands, but if a new rumor turns out to be true, it seems like the game’s reach could be expanding even further. According to a new report from Reuters, Riot Games and its parent company Tencent are currently working on a mobile version of League
Last week, Activision announced some brand new details about Call of Duty: Mobile’s Multiplayer component but said little to no official details about the game’s Battle Royale and Zombie modes. Now, that’s all changed, as the publisher posted on its blog a slew of new details about the aforementioned 100-player mode. While this wouldn’t be the first
Well, it may not be the one that fans have foaming at the mouth for, but at least one Call of Duty game is getting detailed this May. After announcing that the beta for Call of Duty: Mobile had gone live in certain countries just a few days ago, Activision has now released a ton of new information
Wow, a Call of Duty game is getting a Battle Royale mode and a Zombies mode? Color me shocked. (sarcasm) In what seems like a neverending cycle of news about Call of Duty: Mobile, leaked footage from the game has confirmed some brand new information, including the inclusion of a Battle Pass, as well as both of the two
A couple of months back, Activision announced a brand new Call of Duty made for mobile platforms (creatively titled Call of Duty: Mobile), which is essentially a port of the previously Chinese-only game Call of Duty: Online. Back when the game was originally announced, it was also revealed that game would be getting a beta sometime this summer and it seems
What replaced PUBG Mobile in China could very well be propaganda, but at least it’s wholesome propaganda. Tencent, which seems to have a financial stake in everything we hold and love dearly, ended testing for PUBG in China and replaced it with an eerily similar game, whose title roughly translates into Game For Peace. It
Japanese company Marvelous announced today through a statement that it reached an agreement with Chinese company Tencent in order to create a Story of Seasons mobile game. The statement details that Marvelous is only providing authorization to Tencent to use the Story of Seasons license. The Story of Seasons mobile game’s development and publishing will
For years longtime COD fans have been begging for a decent Call of Duty game on mobile devices. Something that could be played on the small screen but didn’t sacrifice it’s twitchy gameplay. Now, it finally seems like Activision is going to make that happen, as earlier tonight the publishing giant announced that Call of Duty: Mobile, a Tencent-developed, Chinese-only
Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite and Unreal Engine, was recently accused by a user on Reddit of making their Epic Games Store “literal spyware” and sending data to the Chinese government due to being owned by Tencent, a Chinese giant which controls 40% of the company. The post received almost 30,000 upvotes and multiple
China has been at the forefront of a gaming crisis recently due to brand new laws and policies set in motion that are limiting the number of video games consumers, especially children, are spending their time on. Earlier this year, the Chinese government stated that they had frozen new game approvals in a new campaign
The popular mobile version of PlayerUknown’s Battle Grounds is bringing a few improvements as well as new items to the surprisingly well-optimized game. The 0.9.0 update comes just after the Sanhok map was put in the game just last month. This update doesn’t contain any new maps, however, it does contain some items that might put you in
A few years back Activision and Tencent released Call of Duty: Online, a free-to-play China-exclusive version of the popular franchise that combined features from multiple eras of the series and ever since it’s become incredibly popular (in fact, Activision and Raven Software use it as a testing ground for new features in the main games). Now, the
As China is the biggest gaming market on the planet, many western developers and publishers are looking to bring their most successful games there. Ubisoft will be the next to bring its titles to China’s highly successful PC and mobile markets, as the publisher announced today that it has partnered with Tencent to introduce its
The survival shooter PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds became one of the standout hits of last year and while the game is continuing to draw in a massive audience across PC and Xbox One, the next wave of new players are set to enter the battlegrounds on mobile starting today. Developer PUBG Corps has announced that PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Mobile,
Today, Chinese publisher Tencent announced that a mobile port of the critically-acclaimed battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is in the works. According to the press release, the tech, media, and gaming powerhouse company will hold publishing rights to the mobile version, while the game’s developer PUBG Corp. will work on development. Tencent also confirmed that the development
Tech, media, and gaming powerhouse Tencent has announced today that it will handle the publishing rights to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China. According to the company, before the game even hits any stores in the country, several (yet subtle) changes will be made to the notable battle royale shooter, due to the country’s tight restrictions on what kind