Chinese gaming giants Tencent Holdings and NetEase have extended their investment in overseas studios, with the former to take a stake in Japan's FromSoftware and the latter acquiring French developer Quantic Dream.
, which Kadokawa said is also taking a minority stake, will together raise 36.4 billion yen for the company.NetEase, China's second-largest gaming company, announced seperately that it has acquired Paris-based Quantic Dream, best known for developing role-playing game "Detroit: Become Human", for an undisclosed amount.
The two high-profile deals reflect Chinese gaming firms' continued pivot overseas as growth in the domestic market, which had been key for both Tencent and NetEase, loses steam. China's video games sector revenue declined in the first half of 2022 for the first time, a report in July showed.
"The investment shows that Tencent is still active in expanding their footprint outside China in big ways," said Serkan Toto, founder of the Kantan Games consultancy.FromSoftware's Elden Ring, a collaboration between veteran game director Hidetaka Miyazaki and "Game of Thrones" author George R. R. Martin, had sold 16.6 million units worldwide by the end of June.
NetEase said its acquisition of Quantic Dream will give it its first studio in Europe. It purchased a minority stake in the company, which is working on a Star Wars game, in 2019. As the regulatory crackdown eases, tech companies are exploring more gaming deals. This month, U.S. firm Unity said it had struck a deal to create a joint venture in China with Alibaba Group and ByteDance as shareholders.
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