Another “prohibitive” news from China. The largest gaming company in the world, Tencent, now does not allow anyone under the age of 16 to log in to games without parental permission. Restrictions apply only to residents of the Celestial Empire.

The geolocation game Let’s Hunt Monsters has been released in China, combining the mechanics of Pokémon GO and Cryptokitties. It has already become the most downloaded freeplay game in the Chinese iOS store, overtaking PUBG and Honor of Kings.

Chinese giant Tencent has announced the global launch of the distribution platform WeGame X. Previously, there was only a Chinese version of the store called WeGame.

Tencent has launched the official website of its new streaming platform Start. A closed beta test of the new product has been announced, in which residents of Shanghai and Guangdong will be able to take part.

On the fifth of March, the mobile release of the role-playing MMO Perfect World took place in China. The game took a little more than three weeks to earn $100 million on iOS. Thanks to this, it overtook Honor of Kings in monthly iOS revenue and became Tencent’s highest-grossing game for March.

At the Unity panel within the framework of GDC 2019, Activision and Tencent announced a free-duplex Call of Duty Mobile for Europe and the USA. Initially, the game was developed only for China. It was not reported that it could be released in other regions.

Last February may have ended exceptionally successfully for Tencent. The Japanese analytical company Nomura believes that the earnings of its Honor of Kings mobile mobs in one month could amount to more than 7 billion Chinese yuan. This is about $1 billion.

A serious struggle broke out around the South Korean publisher Nexon. Electronic Arts, Amazon and Comcast joined it, as VentureBeat became known.

Tencent will present a competitor for Microsoft, Google and Amazon streaming services at GDC 2019. This is reported by Niko Partners analyst Daniel Ahmad.

Exactly how violators of these rules will be punished is not yet clear.

This is not surprising given the growth rate of Apex Legends.

Chinese giant Tencent has joined the South Korean consortium created by Netmarble. The latter is one step closer to buying Nexon, the publisher of ArcheAge and Dragon Nest.

The story of the licensing freeze has finally come to a successful end for Tencent c NetEase. For the first time since last March, Chinese giants have received approval for the release of projects in China.

In the Middle Kingdom, 93 more games were allowed to be published. This is the third selection of approved projects since December. However, there are still no projects of the two leading gaming companies in the country “on the lists”.

Its new owner will be announced in October.

Again without Tencent and NetEase.

Tencent Corporation acquired a minority stake in Fatshark, which created Warhammer: Vermintide. 36% of the shares of the Swedish studio cost Tencent $ 56 million, writes DI Digital.

The Russian publisher of online games will be responsible for the upcoming release of Era of Legends in the West. In China, the project was launched in the summer by the publisher Tencent under the name MT4.

Problems in China forced Tencent and NetEase to strengthen their presence in the international market. Thanks to this, their total revenue from mobile games in foreign markets jumped by an astronomical 382% this year.