Tencent have simply introduced their tackle the world’s most newly fashionable sport style, with a brand new battle royale title tentatively known as Glorious Mission set to sail on the rising tide of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. It seems to be a cellular title so it’s prone to have restricted attraction for hardcore Battlegrounds followers, however the sport has super potential attain.
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You guys aren’t going to imagine this.
It appears to be like like Tencent are making a battle royale sport.
Who noticed that coming? pic.twitter.com/GUx7Z7edTA
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) November 7, 2017
The actual story for many exterior of Asia, nonetheless, is within the enterprise implications. Tencent are the fourth-largest web firm on the planet (behind Facebook, Google, and Amazon), and personal a stake in among the largest video games on the planet, together with League of Legends and Clash of Clans.
More relevantly, they personal a minor stake in PUBG father or mother Bluehole, and had been looking for a publishing deal for the immensely fashionable sport. While that deal fell by way of, they nonetheless have a bit of the PUBG pie. Not solely that, in addition they have a stake in Epic Games, who each publish the Unreal tech PUBG runs on and have launched their very own immensely fashionable battle royale mode for Fortnite.
Success in China has driven PUBG to ever extra obscene heights of recognition, and Tencent have caught their fingers into each single battle royale pie they will.
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