Tencent, the world’s largest seller of video games, is also one of the most financially valuable companies in the world. In fact, Tencent as a company invests in many different businesses related to Internet services; however, video games are undoubtedly the most profitable among these investments.
Let’s take a look at the games that this huge company includes and that many of us are familiar with.
Tencent’s 10 most popular games
- League of Legends
- Fortnite
- PlayerUnknown’s Battleground
- PUBG Mobile
- ArcheAge
- Ring of Elysium
- Crossfire
- Alliance of Valiant Arms
- Honor of Kings
- Arena of Valor
The first thing that comes to mind when it comes to e-sports: League of Legends
- Genre: Role-playing, Strategy, Action, Real-Time, MOBA
- Developer: Riot Games
- Released 2009
- Metacritic: 78
The world-famous League of Legends, released in 2009 by American-based Riot Games; A MOBA game where two teams of 10 players fight against each other. Simply put, the aim of the players in League of Legends is to protect and defend their territory on the game map.
League of Legends became a part of Tencent when Riot Games officially became part of Tencent in 2011. Considering that it is one of the most watched games – often the most watched – in the e-Sports championships held every year, it would not be an exaggeration to say that League of Legends is currently at the forefront of the world’s biggest e-Sports.
Storming an era: Fortnite
- Genre: Action, Shooter, Third Person, Tactical
- Developer: Epic Games
- Released: 2017
- Metacritic: 83
Fortnite, developed and released in 2017 by Epic Games, in which Tencent owns 40% of the shares; It became popular in a short time and gained an international reputation.
Fortnite, which has become one of the indispensable favorites of the players since its release, is also one of the most watched and played e-Sports today.
The record-breaking game of its time: PlayerUnknown’s Battleground
- Genre: Action, Shooter, First-person, Tactical
- Developer: Bluehole, Inc.
- Released: 2017
- Metacritic: 86
Another multiplayer game that has made a huge profit for Tencent is PlayerUnknown’s Battleground, which we have all heard of, or more commonly called PUBG. PUBG, which was inspired by the Battle Royale movie of Bluehole, a South Korea-based company, and launched its beta program in March 2017, has continued to gain popularity without slowing down since then.
Announcing that it made some investment in Bluehole in August of the same year; With the release of the full version of PUBG, it became the owner of 11.5% of Bluehole and therefore PUBG.
Upgrading the mobile game world: PUBG Mobile
- Genre: Action, Shooter, First-person, Tactical
- Developer: Tencent
- Released: 2018
- Metacritic: 82
A year after the full version of PUBG was released, Tencent Games and PUBG Corporation announced two more versions of the game, PUBG Mobile: Exhilarating Battlefield and Army Attack. The first of these two games; became the mobile version played by millions of people around the world today.
Last year, with the whole world under quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, PUBG Mobile rose to the top of Tencent’s game list and became the highest-grossing game of 2020 with revenue of approximately $2.6 billion. However, PUBG Mobile suffered a considerable loss after facing a ban in India, where half of its players live.
One of the stars of the MMORPG world: ArcheAge
- Genre: Role-playing, Fantasy
- Developer: Trion Worlds
- Released: 2014
- Metacritic: 80
ArcheAge, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Korean company XL Games; It was first released in 2013.
Tencent; Exclusive publisher of ArcheAge in China since 2015, interpreted as a combination of sandbox and theme park games.
Standing out with its story every season: Ring of Elysium
- Genre: Action, Shooter, Third Person, Tactical
- Developer: Tencent
- Released: 2018
- Metacritic: –
Ring of Elysium, a multiplayer online battle royale game developed and published by Tencent; It follows a typical narrative style where each game season and added characters have a background story and continue the events of the game plot.
Of course, it would not be wrong to say that my Ring of Elysium is a little dull compared to the huge games that Tencent has in it.
For FPS seekers: CrossFire
- Genre: Action, Shooter, First-person
- Developer: Smilegate
- Release date:
- Metacritic: –
Another successful title among Tencent-owned games is the online tactical 1st person shooter (FPS) game Crossfire; It was first introduced to the world in 2007 by the South Korean company Smilegate Entertainment.
Crossfire, which Tencent acquired the rights to publish in China in 2008; It became one of the highest-grossing games of all time, with revenue of $12 billion in ten years until 2018.
Popular MMOFPS in China: Alliance of Valiant Arms
- Genre: Action, First Person, Shooter
- Developer: Red Duck
- Released 2007
- Metacritic: –
MMOFPS game Alliance of Valiant Arms, a product of Korea-based Red Duck company specializing in FPS games; It was first released in Korea in 2007. Two years later, Tencent released the game in China.
One of the most popular MOBA games in China: Honor of Kings
- Genre: Online multiplayer battle arena, Action, Role Playing
- Developer: Timi Studios Group
- Released: 2015
- Metacritic: –
Developed by Tencent’s TiMI Studios, Honor of King became one of the most popular MOBA games in China in a short time after it was released exclusively for the Chinese market in 2015, and became one of the most well-known games on Tencent’s list.
International version of Honor of King: Arena of Valor
- Genre: Online multiplayer battle arena, Action, Role Playing
- Developer: Tencent
- Released: 2017
- Metacritic: –
Arena of Valor, the international version of the Honor of King we mentioned above; It was introduced to the whole world on Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch platforms in 2016 and gained worldwide popularity by grossing more than 140 million dollars in a short time.
Arena of Valor; Among the games belonging to Tencent, it is one of the most downloaded games on Android.
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