Tencent obtained a patent for its own game controller, which looks very similar to Sony’s and Microsoft’s devices. As it’s only a design, it’s unclear when and if this gamepad will be released.

TiMi Studios is known for mobile games like Call of Duty Mobile and Honor of Kings. The company reached $10 billion in revenue last year and, from now on, will also be developing titles for other platforms.

PUBG Mobile has just hit another record. The game reached $5.1 billion in lifetime revenue, and most of it came from China.

Tencent has shared results for the fiscal year ended December 31. The company earned $29.3 billion from video games alone in 2020, which is almost half of its total revenue.

PUBG Mobile has just reached a new milestone. The mobile battle royal hit 1 billion downloads, which is a huge achievement for a core game.

Tencent became a minority shareholder of French studio Dontnod, investing €30 million in Life is Strange creators.

Russian studio Mundfish secured a Series B funding round of investments led by Tencent. Among other investors are Gaijin and GEM Capital.

Tencent Holdings is the world’s top video games company by revenue, and it’s not about to change any time soon.

Last year, Tencent’s two biggest mobile titles, PUBG Mobile and Honour of Kings, each brought in over $2.6 billion. This is on top of revenues coming from Tencent’s numerous platforms, like WeChat, China’s biggest social network.

However, Genshin Impact, the biggest global launch ever for a Chinese game,

With the holiday season just days away, Craig Chapple, Mobile Insights Strategist, EMEA at Sensor Tower, looks back at 2020. We join him to discuss what the passing year meant for mobile and the industry at large.