Chinese internet giant Tencent is known for its range of popular games such as Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), King of Glory and several others. As interests in Tencent’s games continues to rise, the internet giant had promised to launch a more international games platform. That it seems to have done with the surprise launch of the “WeGame X” game platform. The platform is said to be the international edition of the WeGame storefront which serves the China market.
Tencent is reportedly testing the storefront and its global servers presently, which may mean that a more auspicious official launch is on the way. But the WeGame X platform is available for download internationally. The platform presently has 29 games, most of which were developed by independent Chinese developers, with some of Tencent’s in-house studios accounting for the rest. Some of the listed games include; Deep Silver, Larian, Kingdom Defend: Frontline, E-sports Legend, Possia Time and Hello Game. The popular game Fortnite is not listed but with the listing of some globally popular titles like Deep Silver, it seems clear more big western titles will be available on the platform soon.
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Currently, the platform supports English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese, and Japanese and Russian language support will be added soon. However, it remains to be seen how well WeGame X does with international players. Tencent is viewed with some suspicion by gamers outside of China, especially due to the notion that the company could share user data with the Chinese government.
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