Tencent investing $15m in Fortnite esports

A Tencent spokesperson made the announcement throughout a convention yesterday. According to DoNews, the funding will go in the direction of selling each home and worldwide Fortnite tournaments, in addition to getting used to herald streamers and content material creators. 

Chinese gamers can now pre register for an Epic account, with distinctive in-game objects being supplied to those that pre-order the sport. Chinese gamers who have already got progress on different servers will have the ability to switch their progress to the Chinese servers.

Tencent already personal the rights to PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in China, publishing the cell model of the sport, in addition to 40% of Fortnite writer Epic Games. 

There is at present no launch date for Fortnite in China.