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Thanks CTOnews.com netizen SP_CE, Destiny Stone Gate clue delivery! CTOnews.com December 17 news, you may all know Tencent has a lot of famous game studios in China, but in fact Tencent also holds shares in many large game developers and studios overseas, such as Ubisoft and From Software.

Tencent recently made another move, acquiring a 20% stake (for an undisclosed amount) in SHIFT UP Studios, the developer of the popular overseas Nicki: Goddess of Victory, making it their second largest shareholder.

In fact, Tencent's Level Infinite (Level) distribution platform has already served as the overseas distribution of "Nikki: Goddess of Victory," and now Tencent has officially acquired 20% of SHIFT UP shares, becoming the second largest shareholder after Jin Hengtai.

CTOnews.com learned that SHIFT UP is a game studio founded in 2013 by Kim Hengtai, a famous Korean painter and former art director of Sword Spirit. It is a game research and development company with original design and development technology. It has launched many popular games such as Son of Destiny.

At that time, there were media reports that "Destiny's Child" topped the Google Play and App Store rankings at the beginning of its launch, and it still has good popularity. Not long ago, Destiny's Child voxel NFT was also introduced into The Sandbox meta-universe.

According to introduction, Jin Hengtai once served as original painter and artistic director in Softmax and NCsoft, participated in projects such as Genesis War 3, Real Name Code 2 and Sword Spirit, and also had many fans overseas.

In addition to mobile games, SHIFT UP is currently developing a console game-Stellar Blade, a post-apocalyptic action game that has been licensed for Sony Entertainment and will be available on the PlayStation 5 console platform in 2023.

According to SensorTower data,"Victory Goddess: NIKEE" earns more than $100 million a month, second only to "King Glory,""Original God" and "PUBGM" in November's revenue list. That is to say, four of the five gold-sucking works in the picture below are in Tencent's hands.

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