Tencent reported results for the fiscal year ended December 31. The company’s revenue exceeded $70 billion, and its revenue from games increased by 35% year-on-year and amounted to almost half of the total amount.Overall results for the fiscal year

PUBG Mobile downloads are growing rapidly. To date, the battle royale has been downloaded a billion times. This is despite the fact that the original version of the title for PC and consoles is played by 12 times fewer gamers.

Chinese giant Tencent continues to expand. This time, the company bought a minority stake in the Czech studio Bohemia Interactive, known for the franchises DayZ and Arma.

The Chinese giant Tencent does not stop investing in Western assets. This time the company became a minority owner of the French studio Dontnod Entertainment, known for the titles Vampyr, Twin Mirror and the franchise Life Is Strange.

Yesterday, the Moscow studio Mundfish attracted investments from three large companies at once: Tencent, Gaijin Entertainment and GEM Capital. Also, the authors of Atomic Heart are looking for new specialists to join their team.

Friday turned into another deal for Tencent. The Chinese giant has bought a controlling stake in Klei Entertainment studio, known for Don’t Starve, a popular survival simulator with elements of roguelike. The amount of the transaction is not disclosed.

Chinese industrial giant Tencent is going to acquire another major asset. The network started talking that Take Two Interactive, Electronic Arts or Zynga can join the ranks of the company. The latter is called most often.

China’s mobile market is undergoing significant changes. They are clearly visible on the example of the conflict between Huawei and the publisher Tencent, which does not want to pay a 50% commission to the store. Analysts believe that now it is not content distribution channels that come out in the first place, but its quality. So local Android stores may soon lose their influence.The essence of the conflict between Tencent and Huawei

Not only Apple reduces the commission for developers with low income. The Chinese gaming store WeGame — a local analogue of Steam — said that it would not take deductions from games whose annual revenue is below 10 million rubles ($ 1.5 million).

As a result of the purchase of the Chinese company Leyou Technologies, several game studios came under the management of Tencent at once. Among them are Digital Extremes, the creators of the Warframe shooter. Now many are concerned about the question of whether developers will retain their creative independence.The deal, which was approved by 97.7% of Leyou shareholders, became known in the middle of the month.

Now the Chinese gaming industry is dominated by Tencent and NetEase. However, now ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has launched its own store and plans to compete with them by independently developing and releasing projects.Own store and publishing house

The case of banning the Chinese messenger WeChat in American stores is gaining momentum. This time, not only a group of app users will appear in court, but also Tencent itself.

This year, the Chinese mobile title Honor of Kings celebrates its fifth anniversary. In honor of the anniversary, Tencent shared a new achievement of the project — the DAU of the game has passed the milestone of 100 million.

The organizer of esports events from the “Celestial Empire” Versus Programming Network (VSPN) held a Series B funding round for $ 100 million. Now the company plans, among other things, to build an esports research institute.

Tencent—owned Swedish developer Sharkmob has announced the opening of its first studio outside the country – Sharkmob London. The new team includes veterans of Mediatonic, Rockstar North, CCP, Wargaming and Playground Games.

Huya and DouYu companies, which are the largest players in the Chinese gaming streaming market, have announced a merger. Under the leadership of Tencent, they will create an analogue of Twitch with a total valuation of $ 10 billion.The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2021.

The Chinese colossus Tencent has invested in another Western company. This time we are talking about 10 Chambers — the authors of the first-person shooter GTFO.

Against the background of the coronavirus, Playrix has established itself as a leader in the mobile games market. Only Tencent earns more than her now.

A Reuters source reports that PUBG Mobile has little chance of returning to India. Even revoking the rights to publish the game in the region from Tencent is unlikely to help lift the ban.The South Korean company PUBG Corporation was forced to revoke the license to publish the game in India from Tencent after 118 Chinese applications were blocked in the country in early September amid a border conflict.