TENCENT STOPPED US CASUAL GAME PLATFORM QQGAMES

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03-17-2011
Tencent Stopped US Casual Game Platform QQGames

SHENZHEN, Mar 17, 2011 (SinoCast Daily Business Beat via COMTEX) -- Tencent Inc. issued an announcement on the official website of its casual game platform issued for the US market, QQGames, saying that the platform stopped operation formally from March 7, 2011.

The move is explained to "strategic adjustment".

The platform, which is said to be operational in the US for about four years, mainly operates casual games like Pool, Robo, Treasure Hunter, Black Jack, Texas Hold Em, Bbble Arena, Puzzle Dasher, Chess, Gold Sweeper, QQ Mahjong, and Hearts.

Foreign media reported that QQgames ever set foot in the US market via cooperation with AOL (NYSE: AOL). Different from the domestic competition environment, the US instant messaging market is mainly monopolized by MSN and Yahoo messenger. Tencent ever issued an international version of QQ, the most popular free instant messaging computer program in Mainland China, supporting foreign languages such as English, French, and Japanese. However, the target users still are Chinese people.

However, according to the announcement, other two types of online games Cafe Life and Paradise Life released by Tencent in a name of Icebreak Games on Facebook will still maintain operational.

Source: www.163.com (March 17, 2011)

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