Just ahead of Children’s Day in China (June 1), Tencent Games has announced a significant upgrade to its “Anti-Addiction 4-tool Set” management tool. This suite of features aims to empower parents and promote healthy gaming habits among minors.

Empowering Parents with Enhanced Anti-Addiction Tools

The upgraded set builds upon Tencent’s existing anti-addiction measures like real-name authentication, playtime and recharge limits, and facial recognition. It goes a step further by offering a comprehensive “all-around toolbox” for personalized control.

The four key features of the upgraded system include:

One-click Ban on Play and Recharge: This allows parents to instantly pause their child’s gameplay and in-game purchases, providing a quick and easy way to manage playtime and spending.

Self-Account Management: This empowers children to manage their own accounts within pre-set limitations. It fosters a sense of responsibility and encourages them to develop healthy gaming habits.

Green Mobile Reporting: This feature provides tools for parents to report inappropriate content or behavior encountered within the game, contributing to a safer online environment.

One-click Block Strangers: This allows parents to restrict their child’s interaction with strangers within the game, minimizing potential risks associated with online interactions.

The upgraded tools will be progressively rolled out through the “Tencent Growth Guardian” official account and mini-program. Tencent emphasizes that these features target crucial areas like gaming duration, in-game spending, and social interaction. This multi-pronged approach equips parents with a powerful weapon to safeguard their children from the negative impacts of gaming addiction.

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The 2023 Game of the Year, Elden Ring, is apparently hitting the mobile gaming market soon. The highly acclaimed title is reportedly getting a mobile version with Tencent being behind the development. This is quite a surprise considering the studio behind it is best known for making hit console and PC video games. So here’s everything you need to know.

An Elden Ring Mobile Game in the works

According to a report from Reuters, China’s Tencent is bringing the thrilling experience of Elden Ring to mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. To recall, Elden Ring is the latest entry in FromSoftware’s popular Souls-like genre. It is a Dark Fantasy based Open World RPG, which saw massive success within the gaming community for its gorgeous visuals, deep mechanics, and challenging boss fights.

Now, it appears that this formula might get translated from a $60 AAA title to a free-to-play mobile game. Of course, this means that microtransactions will likely make an appearance in-game. Unfortunately, this was all the information shared in the report. It is worth noting that news of the Tencent made Elden Ring mobile game arrives soon after the Chinese company halted development of the highly anticipated Nier mobile game.

For those unaware, Tencent reportedly dropped the Nier mobile project since it couldn’t find a monetization model that would let it recover the cost of licensing the franchise from Square Enix. So it remains to be seen if the Elden Ring mobile game actually hits the market. There will likely be some friction with fans of Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series, who may view the mobile version as inferior. This is all we know at the moment, so stay tuned for more updates. Till then, you can check out some of our recent gaming related coverage like Palworld’s record sales and Xbox exclusives possibly releasing on the PS5 soon.

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In September, Tencent Games generated nearly 200 million US Dollars in revenue. The company brought in this massive figure from just two of its massively successful mobile games, namely Honor of King and PUBG Mobile.

PUBG Mobile and Honor of Kings are Tencent’s top grossing games

The news arrives from market research firm Appmagic. In a recent report, the firm found that Honor of Kings and PUBG Mobile were the top grossing mobile games from the Chinese gaming giant, Tencent. The Honor of Kings was the highest grossing mobile game, while Scopely’s Monopoly Go took the second spot. PUBG Mobile took the third spot, with the three titles bringing in 115.8 million US Dollars, 87.95 million US Dollars, and 83.19 million US Dollars respectively.

In other words, Tencent alone generated almost 200 million US Dollars with just two of its titles. For those unaware, Honor of Kings is a MOBA mobile game similar to DOTA 2 and League of Legends, while PUBG Mobile is a looter shooter battle royale. These are some of the most popular mobile games in the market, with the two games being especially popular in the Asian market.

Apart from these titles, HoYoverse’s Honkai: Star Rail retained its fifth spot in September 2023, but saw an 8 million US Dollar decrease over the previous month. On the other hand, Genshin Impact (another HoYoverse game) saw a 10 million US Dollar rise last month, making it rise to the seventh spot in the overall ranking. NetEase Games’ new Dunk City Dynasty is a new street basketball title, which generated 19.5 million US Dollars last month. This is a Chinese exclusive game at the moment, so it is clear that China is still a major market for these aforementioned games.

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Chinese Technology giant and the world’s largest video game company, Tencent, has fired more than 100 employees over allegations of fraud, corruption, and embezzlement. The company reported more than 10 employees to the Police, with one of the employees being sentenced to three years in prison for accepting bribes from a competitor. There are six other cases that have resulted in imprisonment. 

The numbers prove that the size of internal corruption is larger and more severe in 2022 than the previous years. As a part of its anti-corruption campaign, Tencent has started annual reporting of the number of corruption and fraud cases found within the company. Some of the cases of 2022 include employees from the company’s News and Media content group and its famous TiMi and Lightspeed gaming studios. 

Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Tencent Pony Ma admitted that the corruption level is severe within the company. Last month in an internal company meeting, he gave an intense speech highlighting the problems within the company’s management, gaming business, WeChat platform, and other subsidiaries. He stated, “the internal corruption is really shocking, involving some managers. This year, Tencent introduced the digital capability for anti-fraud by collecting reimbursement within the company and the data of external suppliers.”

In response to the corruption allegations, the firm said that it had a zero-tolerance policy against such behavior and would blacklist the people and parties involved in such shady business. The company also said that external firms and businesses involved in such transactions will be barred from future contracts. 

In the last couple of years, Tencent has been involved in controversies and has been a target of the censorship campaign of the Chinese government. The biggest video game company in the world was under an 18-month ban from launching new games. The ban was lifted last September when the government approved a new batch of licenses, including one for Tencent’s action game, Metal Slug: Awakening. TiMi studios, a subsidiary of Tencent that developed this game, was also reportedly involved in the corruption scandal.

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Tencent Games and Krafton have announced are organizing the first PUBG Mobile National Championship (PMNC) in the United Kingdom and China-based tech giant Xiaomi will be the title sponsor for the competition.

It will be held from 4th June to 8th August in which around 16 UK-based teams will compete for the total prize money of £22,000 GBP, which is approximately $30,000.

The actual tournament series is slated to start from July 22nd till August 8th. The teams are invited to register and compete online in the PMNC Open Qualifier which is taking place from June 4th till 11th June.

To participate in the PUBG Mobile National Championship United Kingdom (PMNC UK) Open Qualifier, teams must consist of a minimum of four players, with a maximum of six players from the same country.

The winner of the PBNC UK 2021 tournament will also qualify for the 2021 PUBG Mobile Pro League (PMPL) Western Europe which is set to take place this fall. The 2021 PMPL circuit will feature a $14 million total prize pool and seven new regions, including North America, Brazil, Latam, CIS, Turkey, Arabia, and Western Europe.

PUBG Mobile has plans to host a variety of tournaments throughout the year in Western Europe, with a cumulative prize pool totaling above $400,000.

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Chinese tech giant Tencent is apparently planning to launch its own handheld gaming console, going by a patent spotted recently. Tencent happens to have got the exclusive right to distribute the Nintendo Switch in China and it launched the handheld console in China on December 4, 2019.

According to the Qicha app, Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. obtained approval for a patent titled “Game Console” on March 19. The patent application was filed in October 2020 bearing the publication number CN306392452S.

The product image clearly shows it will be a portable handheld device. It adopts a classic design similar to the Nintendo Switch handheld console but there are some marked differences between Tencent’s and the popular Nintendo Switch.

Thus, the patent fuels speculations that Tencent may be planning to enter the game console industry on its own. Tencent has always been a major player in the industry but focuses more on gaming software. In recent times, the brand entered into a partnership with gaming phone brands like ASUS ROG, Red Magic, and Black Shark to launch gaming phones.

The console itself looks like what is designed to be played as a standalone and connected to a Windows PC. There is what looks like the Win10 logo on one of the buttons at the left button of the handheld console. Also, the rear aspect has the text inscribed “PC Console” and “For PC Console gamer”. Thus, the console may appear as a Win-based handheld.

In other respects, the game console also uses a Type-C interface and has collapsible support at the rear.

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Gaming smartphones are becoming more and more powerful and the companies making those phones are also doing everything they can to make their device rank among the leading ones in the market.

In line with that, Nubia’s Red Magic has today confirmed that the company has entered into a strategic partnership with Tencent Games and the purpose of this cooperation is to offer a better gaming experience to the users of Red Magic Gaming Smartphones.

There were reports about this partnership even before the company made it official. Recently, an alleged image of the upcoming Red Magic 6 Gaming Smartphone had leaked online, which features the Red Magic logo as well as Tencent Games logo.

The Tencent Logo is placed on an X-shaped structure that seems to have been used to act as a heat sink. On the sides of that, there’s a grille on both sides, which indicates that there may be a cooling fan present the grille is present to vent out the air.

So far, it has been confirmed that the Red Magic 6 gaming smartphone will come powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 chipset, which is the flagship SoC available in the market right now. It will be packed with LPDDR5 RAM and UFS 3.1 storage.

For connectivity, it seems to have packed 5G support as well as Wi-Fi 6. It will be running the latest Android 11 operating system with the company’s own custom user interface. The smartphone will feature a 4,5000mAh battery — the same as its predecessor — but will come with a faster-charging technology. It is confirmed to have support for 120W charging compared to 55W on its predecessor.

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UPDATE: Tencent’s games have been relisted on the Huawei App store after they were pulled off over what is alleged to be a dispute over revenue sharing. Apparently, both parties have finally reached a consensus but there is no official statement to that effect. The original story continues below.

Tencent has confirmed that Huawei has removed its (Tencent’s) online game catalog from Huawei’s app store due to the failure of both companies to reach an agreement on revenue sharing.

A statement by Tencent reads; “Due to the failure of Huawei’s mobile game platform to renew its contract with our Mobile Game Promotion Project Agreement as scheduled, relevant products of Tencent Games were suddenly removed from the shelves early this morning.”

Although Xiaomi is referred to as China’s Apple, in the real sense, Huawei is the company that is the equivalent of Apple in China in terms of revenue and market share. Huawei presently controls 41.4% share of the China mobile phone market and 14.9% of the global market, according to data from market research firms IDC and Canalys.

Although Tencent sells some of the top-ranked online games worldwide, its partnership with Huawei is an important one as it leverages the hundreds of millions of Huawei phones that is in circulation in China, Tencent’s biggest market.

Huawei and Tencent did not immediately respond to a request by Reuters seeking comment. However, a source familiar with the matter hinted that the games were removed because the companies could not agree on a revenue-sharing deal for the app store sales. Huawei had reportedly insisted on receiving a 50% cut, a term Tencent disagrees with.

Tencent hints that they are actively communicating and negotiating with Huawei’s mobile game platform in a bid to reach a resolution as soon as possible. The brand also extended an apology to all users for the inconvenience.

Apart from Tencent, there is mounting resistance from game developers to Huawei’s revenue demands. Last year, Shanghai-based developer Mihoyo, decided not to place its hit game “Genshin Impact” on Huawei’s app store due to failure to reach an agreement with the commission structure for sales.

This dispute is reminiscent of the imbroglio between Apple and Epic Games which saw Apple remove Fortnite and other Epic Games’ titles from the App store due to disagreement over revenue collection.

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Tencent has announced a new mobile game that it has been working on for the past 4 years. The game is set in a fantasy setting and is called Wandering Mountains and Seas (translated).

At the moment, it is currently unknown when exactly the new mobile game will be launched. Although, the known game publisher has revealed certain details regarding the upcoming title. In the Wandering Mountains and Seas, players will have the ability to explore the vast and diverse map. In other words, it is an open world game for smartphones.

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From what we know so far, the game will let players explore the deep seafloor and high mountain tops, as its name suggests, and will even have a base building mechanics as well, which will also allow gamers to fly out to the moon and make a settlement there. The game apparently has no defined class system, rather, its skills and combat system is based around the different weapons one may use.

You will have the option of choosing between melee or long range attacks through these various weapons, with each being unique and having different effects. This allows for a dynamic gameplay mechanic where players can switch roles in the team at any given moment. Interestingly, a trading system and in game economy also seems to be in the works, with players being able to set up their own stalls for extra cash.

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The latest game within the popular Pokémon franchise has just been launched. Pokémon Unite has been developed by Tencent‘s TiMi Studios and brings your favorite Pokémons in a new team strategy based MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) title to your handheld devices.

The game highly resembles popular video game titles within the same genre, namely DOTA 2 and League of Legends. Looking at the map, a similar three lane style has been adopted within the 5 versus 5 player battle arena. From the launch trailer, we also see fan favorites like Charizard use their iconic fire abilities. Hence, it’s safe to assume it would play a lot like League or DOTA.

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Notably, the developer behind the game, TiMi Studios, has also developed the extremely successful Honor of Kings and Call of Dute: Mobile, which were both free to play on smartphones. Pokémon Unite will also be free to play and will arrive with crossplay from the get go, with players joining in on both smartphones and the Nintendo Switch.

Unfortunately, Pokémon Unite doesn’t have an official release date as of yet. However, it is expected to arrive soon. Finer details into its mechanics, gameplay, and even characters are also unknown but from the looks of the trailer, it already appeals to the Pokémon fan within us.

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Earlier today (8th May 2020), Sensor Tower, a known analytics firm, published a new report, which detailed the rankings of the top Chinese mobile game publishers. The rankings also analyzed both Apple App Store and Google Play Store revenue for the month of April 2020.

In the report, the global App Store and Google Play’s mobile game revenue ranked 30 of the top Chinese game publishers. According to the data, these publishers raked in more than 1.74 billion US Dollars just in the month of April. This marks a record high increase of 14 percent over March 2020 and accounts for 27.5 percent of the total current global mobile game market’s revenue.

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Looking at the list, Tencent Games leads the Chinese mobile gaming publisher rankings. This arrives as no surprise as the video game publisher is behind many massively popular games and has also been successful in many countries apart from China through games like PUBG Mobile (which is a great hit in the global market). Other notable names in the lists include NetEase that comes in second followed by Lilith Games and FunPlus at third and fourth spots respectively.

The mobile gaming market has been seeing a rise in recent years and is currently booming, thanks in part due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The viral outbreak has led many people to be confined in their homes playing video games, especially on their smartphones to pass the time. Thus, the period has helped various Chinese mobile game publishers, 36 of which can even be found in the top 100 mobile game publishers that brought in the highest revenue.

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Along with unveiling its new branding, Xiaomi-backed gaming smartphone maker Black Shark had recently confirmed that the its next-generation flagship device, dubbed as Black Shark 3 will be launched in China on 3rd March.

Today, in a new teaser poster shared by the company, it confirms that the Black Shark 3 will come with a display having 270Hz touch sampling rate. The company is also offering calling the display “eSports Screen”.

The company has also added that the single-finger touch response delay is as low as 24ms while the multi-finger touch response delay is as low as 28ms. This is aimed at giving users a better gaming experience.

As per the previous leaks, the Black Shark 3 is expected to come powered by a 5,000mAh battery that has more than 800 charge cycles and support for 65W fast charging which can be fully charged in about 38 minutes.

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It is also claimed to have dual-mode 5G support and a 2K display with 120Hz refresh rate. It will be powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC, along with LPDDR5 RAM, and UFS 3.0 flash storage.

The Black Shark 3 Pro smartphone was recently spotted on Geekbench 5 with model number MBU-A0, in which it managed to score 901 points in the single-core test and 3,015 points in the multi-core test. It also revealed that the phone will run Android 10 OS out of the box.

Black Shark is also expected to announce exclusive Tencent features for the phone since both the companies have entered into a partnership last month for collaborating on software and hardware for games.

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Xiaomi-backed gaming smartphone market Black Shark has today announced that the company has partnered with Tencent Games in an effort to explore innovation in gaming both in terms of software as well as hardware.

Making this announcement, the company has said that it aims to provide users with a more diverse gaming experience. We expect to see this partnership getting materialised with the upcoming Black Shark 3 smartphone getting launched later this year.

Earlier, Tencent Games had partnered with ASUS for the company’s second-generation gaming smartphone — Asus ROG Phone 2. Under this partnership, the company had also launched Tencent customized Elite version of the smartphone at a cheaper rate in China.

While the company has not yet revealed anything about the upcoming gaming smartphone, leak shows that the Black Shark 3 will come with 2K resolution display and will be offering 120Hz refresh rate. Earlier, it was said that the phone will come powered by the newly announced Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 SoC.

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Previous reports indicate that the phone could come equipped with 16GB of RAM. The smartphone has been certified for radio transmission under model number KLE-A0. It shows that the device supports dual mode 5G connectivity.

If the reports are true, then the Black Shark 3 gaming smartphone will be the first to come with 16GB of RAM. So far, the highest memory configuration that any smartphone offers stands at 12GB.

The upcoming gaming phone from the company will be the successor to Black Shark 2 Pro which was announced back in July last year. It features a 6.39-inch FHD+ screen, a Snapdragon 855+ processor, and packs a 4000mAh battery with support for 27W fast charge. We don’t expect anything lesser from the Black Shark 3 and a recent leak says it will have a bigger 4700mh battery.

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