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While this is true, Tencent also owns major shares in a ton of the games that might be considered among the most popular, as well as minor shares in many of the companies they don't control.

Arena of Valor, most popular mobile MOBA game; 80m daily players as of Dec 2017 and I believe it's currently the biggest game worldwide despite mostly being popular in China (I think there are even stories of politicians delaying press conferences to finish a match lmao) - developed and published by Tencent

Fortnite - Tencent owns 40% of Epic Games

Clash of Clans - Tencent owns ~85% of Supercell

PUBG - They're working on acquiring 10% of Bluehole, developed PUBG mobile, and managed the (hugely successful) China release

Overwatch / Hearthstone - Tencent owns ~5% of Activision (about $2.5b)

Crossfire (still very popular in Asia) - Tencent managed the China release

Candy Crush - Tencent is the distributor in China

Some smaller but also well-known companies:

Path of Exile - 80% stake

Miniclip - majority stake

Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, The Division, Rainbow 6) - 5%

Paradox Games (Cities: Skylines, Stellaris, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, etc) - 5%

Netmarble Games (mobile games like Lineage 2, YS Online) - 22%

(mostly sourced from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_Games)

This is completely ignoring their significant shares in Tesla, Snapchat, etc. And the fact that they're like, not an actual investment firm and have their own business, including WeChat, QQ, and their AI lab. League's decline in popularity is certainly bad for them, but relative to their entire operations it's only a small hit. This recent drop in market value is, in my opinion, better attributed to the doubts over tech stock valuations due to Facebook and Twitter.

>Miniclip - majority stake

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I wasn't even aware that they were still around, but apparently they are.

major flashbacks to bush's white house shootout. i wonder if they still host all the old games?

honestly i wonder about the flash games sites in general. what happens when flash finally gets brought behind the barn?

Flashpoint has been organizing an archive that bundles in the standalone flash player.

Anyone play their mining game where you are a drill?

omg motherload. memories <3

When I used to play MotherLoad, the world was still a bright place, full of possibility. I was on track to finish from a prestigious high school, accepted into a prestigious university, and obviously going to end up pretty comfortable in life.

Little did I know, that within me I had the seeds of mental illness growing. Perhaps, one of the signs, if I only knew to pay attention to it, was how "addicting" games were to me. I think the world back then just thought a lot less about those things, if you could still manage to be outwardly successful.

No one worried about what it meant that some kids finding a vibrant, "safer" environment in video games, than in the real world.

Ahhhh, MotherLoad.

Sometimes I upvote things purely for their literary quality.

I have no knowledge of "Motherload," nor any interest in modern games. But those few lines about your (your character's ?) interaction with it, makes me want to know how this story unfolds.

Oh man Motherload. I have really good memories of spending my school breaks on motherload. All those drills, so much fun.

Motherload? That game was terrific. You can still play it, though you do need Flash.

https://www.miniclip.com/games/motherload/en/

There's also Super Motherload on Steam.

I loved that game. I wrote a copy of it for desktop in c++ at the end of high school: https://github.com/Sytten/MineDeeper Please don't judge my code quality I was 16 at the time :)

I love this about HN. People showcasing their little OS projects. One can learn so much.

XGen Studios the studio behind MotherLoad actually released a remaster of the game a couple of years ago http://www.xgenstudios.com/super-motherload/

Interestingly, Arena of Valor has done much, much worse in North American markets (and nowadays charts poorly on iOS in both ranking and grossing): https://toucharcade.com/2018/07/30/arena-of-valor-world-cup-...

And they are able to push all of their mobile games through Wechat, with over a billion active users.

Gaming was 48% of their revenue for Q2, with US$3.2 billion in phone sales and US$2.1 for desktop.

The other 52% comes from social networks, Wepay, cloud infrastructure, and online advertising.

Arena of Valor is SCARY addictive.

My wife threatened divorce if I wouldn't delete the app.

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