By Josh Ye
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese language tech large Tencent Holdings unveiled on Friday a big-budget console sport named Final Sentinel, a title seen because the cell gaming large’s most formidable foray into the console market.
The Shenzhen-based agency confirmed a trailer of the motion role-playing sport at The Recreation Awards in Los Angeles. The title is being developed by about 200 folks at Tencent’s Lightspeed LA sport studio, a key U.S. studio on the coronary heart of Tencent’s international enlargement plans.
Tencent has not revealed a launch date for Final Sentinel, which can let gamers struggle robots in a dystopian Japan.
In 2020, Tencent introduced in Steve Martin, a widely known business veteran who has labored on among the world’s most profitable console video games equivalent to Grand Theft Auto and Crimson Useless Redemption, to assist bolster its presence in console video games.
Tencent has been principally identified for creating common cell video games equivalent to PUBG Cell, and Chinese language gamers have historically spent extra on cell video games, that are usually cheaper to supply.
However as Tencent seems to broaden overseas in addition to cater to Chinese language customers’ altering tastes at residence, it’s pouring assets into big-budget console video games.
Whereas Final Sentinel will showcase Tencent’s in-house growth prowess, the corporate has scooped up large stakes in lots of the world’s main sport builders, together with a 30% stake in Baldur’s Gate 3 maker Larian Studios.
(Reporting by Josh Ye; Enhancing by Gerry Doyle)
