Major Chinese investment house known to online gamers in the west for its stake in a number of western games, including League of Legends and World of Warcraft.
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Funcom Q3 2019: Amid revenue drop and Tencent stock buy-up, Funcom is working on multiple new games
It was going to be hard for Funcom to top its 2018 financials, given that it rolled out Conan Exiles last year but has...
Improbable and Tencent join forces to bring SpatialOS and a developer program to China
It would appear that Improbable, the company behind SpatialOS, is hedging its bets on China. Improbable announced that it will be working with Tencent...
Riot swears its Legends of Runeterra CCG won’t be pay-to-win
It's easy to assume that Legends of Runeterra, the digital CCG from the League of Legends universe, would be just chock-full of "surprise mechanics"...
Riot Games expresses ’empathy’ for Blizzard after its Hong Kong fiasco
One might wonder why, possessed as it was of a pretty good week of announcements, Riot Games would willingly put Blizzard's One Ring on...
League of Legends tells casters and pro players to avoid ‘sensitive issues’ at the World Champs
So Riot's not having a good week with the whole China thing either.
While the League of Legends studio was able to successfully fend off...
Funcom roundup: Secret World Legends’ Samhain, Moons of Madness’ launch, and Tencent
Funcom is up to some stuff this week! For starters, Secret World Legends is patching in Samhain today. One of the better Halloween events...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 241: The MMO industry reshuffles its deck
Justin and Bree are joined by Gamigo's Merv Lee Kwai aka Khrolan for a sponsored interview on ArcheAge Unchained, plus news on Guild Wars 2, Funcom's Tencent investment, Red Dead Online on PC, Raph Koster's new MMORPG, and adventures in WoW and City of Heroes.
Don’t panic, but Tencent just bought 29% of Funcom
Whether you follow Funcom for its old-school MMORPGs like Anarchy Online and Secret World Legends, its survival sandbox Conan Exiles, or its up coming...
Paladins is shutting down in China on November 30
Publisher Tencent has come to an amicable decision with Hi-Rez Studios to shut down Paladins in China. The decision comes roughly three years since...
The MOP Up: Nexon’s Project V4 aims to be the best-looking MMO in your pocket
Nexon gave a preview of Project V4 at a media preview event lately, and this fantasy MMO looks like one of the most shiny...
MMO Business Roundup: Riot’s diversity ‘progress’, NetEase’s esports arena, DayZ down under, and Twitch threats
Welcome back to another roundup of what's going on in the business of making online games! Let's start with the most controversial of the...
Leyou states it has plans for both Transformers Online and Civilization Online
Remember Leyou? It's the same company that's working on a new Lord of the Rings title in concert with Amazon, you know. Turns out...
Newly proposed Chinese gaming regulations target romantic plotlines and sexual content
Love conquers all -- except for Chinese gaming regulations, if the recently proposed rules for game content regulation come to pass. The People's Daily,...
Tencent battle royale Ring of Elysium has officially launched
The shores of Early Access have gone away, leaving only launch for Tencent's Ring of Elysium. Yes, it actually launched this week. To celebrate,...
Kakao and Netmarble both bid for a controlling stake in Nexon last week
Our days of playing the fun "who's buying Nexon this week" game are quickly coming to a middle as apparently the auction has finally...
Tencent is apparently giving up on the Western port of Honour of Kings, Arena of Valor
Here's a fun bit of statistical data for you on this Tuesday:Â Honour of Kings is literally the most successful mobile game in the entire...
League of Legends is destined for mobile, Reuters reports
Remember all the thinkpieces years back about the rise of the MOBA? The industry's been through several bubbles since then, between survival sandboxes and...
PUBG Mobile plans new ‘healthy gaming’ feature reminding you to take breaks
Young man! How long have you played this game?
I said young man! Your playtime is insane!
You should slow down, maybe out of the house,
You...
Tencent gives up on PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds being approved in China
Tencent has been waiting a long time to release PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in China. For more than a year, the game has been in "testing" whilst waiting...
MMO Business Roundup: Apex Legends’ Twitch decline, PUBG’s funding, and crappy gaming myths
Welcome back to another roundup of smaller business stories affecting the MMO industry and orbiting genres.
It's not just your imagination: Apex Legends hasn't been...
