Tencent Games

Tencent Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, provides value-added services and online advertising services in the mainland internationally, but primarily in China. The company operates value-added services, online advertising, financial and business services, and other segments. It offers online gaming and social networking services; FinTech and cloud services; and online advertising services, such as media, social, and other advertising services.

Tencent is internationally known for developing and having stakes in many of the most popular video games in the industry and is also the largest company in the sector since it also owns wholly or in percentage stakes in companies such as Riot Games, Epic Games, Activision Blizzard or Ubisoft, who develop popular titles such as League of Legends (LoL), Fortnite, Clash of Clans, Clash Royale, Agar.io, Call of Duty Mobile, PUBG, Arene of Value, CrossFire, the new game of the Pokémon saga "Pokémon Unite", and more.

Tencent Games owns 100% of four video game companies Riot Games, known mainly for the game considered a sport and with international professional competitions MOBA League of Legends, Funcom creators of Conan Exiles, Sharkmob in charge of Vampire: The Masquerade and the fourth company of which Tencent owns 100% is Leyou which owns a wide variety of developers such as Splash Damage (Gears Tactics, Halo: The Master Chief Collection) or Digital Extreme (Warframe, The Darkness II).

In addition to fully owning these companies, there are other companies in which Tencent is the majority shareholder: for example, Supercell, owner of successful mobile games such as Clash Royale or Clash of Clans, among others, the Chinese giant owns 84% of its shares, while in others such as Grinding Gear Games it owns 80%. There are other companies in which Tencent owns the majority of the shares, although the acquisition agreement does not specify the percentage: this is the case of Klei Entertainment, 10 Chambers Collective and Miniclip.

Tencent also owns a strong shareholding in firms such as Epic Games, of which it acquired 40%, the purchase was executed 5 years before launching Fortnite. Another company is Garena, responsible for Free Fire, the most downloaded mobile game of 2020. To these two successful firms must be added others such as Fatshark of which it owns 36%, Dontnod Entertainment of which it bought 22.63%.

The Chinese giant also holds shares in major companies such as Bluehole (11.5%), Ubisoft, Activision Blizzard or Paradox Interactive (5%), Frontier Developments (9%) and Sumo Group (10%). He also invested an unknown amount in the popular Roblox videogame platform.