Tencent Corporation intends to invest about ¥100 million ($ 15.8 million) in the promotion of the popular online action movie Fortnite in China. Epic Games’ game hit officially launched in China on April 23.

The Chinese corporation Tencent is the largest gaming investor in the world. From April 2017 to the end of March this year, Tencent invested in gaming companies 40% of all funds that developers and startups of the video game industry managed to attract in 12 months.

The Chinese corporation Tencent will monitor the behavior of gamers in their games. For playing with cheats and offensive behavior, the publisher promised to reduce the social assessment — a parameter by which the Chinese authorities plan to determine the social value of each resident of the country in the future.

For the first time, the Chinese corporation Tencent has allowed third-party companies to place their games on the platform of the popular messenger WeChat. A batch of new titles from the Tencent collaboration and other developers appeared on WeChat on April 4.

Chinese streaming service Huya announced its entry into the New York Stock Exchange. The company expects to earn $200 million on the IPO.

Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot shared a fantastic plan. He intends to increase the audience of the company’s games 10 times within 10 years — from 500 million to 5 billion people.

On March 21, the Chinese giant Tencent published its commercial results for the past year. The company’s revenue reached $36.3 billion (an increase of 56%). One of the growth factors was the consistently high performance of the gaming segment.

On March 20, the French publisher Ubisoft announced the signing of an agreement with Vivendi. According to the agreement, Vivendi sells its entire stake in Ubisoft. The deal is estimated at €2 billion.

Chinese IT giant Tencent has invested over $1 billion in local streaming platforms Douyu and Huya. In one day Douyu received $634 million, and Huya — $461 million.

The South Korean media company Kakao has raised $130 million to develop its gaming division Kakao Games. About $100 million of this amount was invested by the Chinese corporation Tencent and the Korean mobile publisher Netmarble.

The manufacturer of Lego constructors has teamed up with Tencent Corporation. The companies intend to cooperate in creating online games and social media for young Chinese citizens.

Ubisoft and Tencent have become strategic partners. As part of the cooperation, Tencent will release a number of mobile titles of the Ubisoft subsidiary of Ketchapp Games publishing house in the Weixin version of the WeChat social network for the domestic market.

The volume of the online gaming market in China for the 3rd quarter of 2017 amounted to $9.6 billion. 51.6% ($4.9 billion) of this amount was earned by Tencent Corporation, the research company iResearch China reported.

Give me two. The Chinese publisher PUBG is developing not one, but two mobile versions of the game at once.

The main “battle royale” of modern PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS will be released on mobile platforms. Porting the game will be handled by the developer studio Bluehole Studios together with the Chinese megacorporation Tencent.

The Chinese know how to monetize online entertainment. Tencent reported for the third quarter of 2017, during which it earned $4 billion (¥ 27 billion) on online games.

The Chinese Internet corporation Tencent is thinking about the prospect of publishing mobile games in the Snapchat messenger. This became known a week after Tencent bought a 12% stake in Snapchat-owned company Snap Inc.

The Chinese corporation Tencent has not abandoned its intentions to purchase Bluehole, which created the phenomenally successful PvP shooter PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS.

Tencent Corporation has conquered Chinese users with a mobile game Such a Great Speech: Applaud Xi Jinping, where it is required to applaud the head of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping (Xi Jinping). On the launch day of October 18, it was played more than 400 million times.