SAN FRANCISCO, May 11: Pocket Gems, a leading autonomous creator
of novel mobile games and interactive amusement, revealed that it gained unsurpassed
highs in both players and overall reservations in 2016, the most effective year
in the history of the business.
Pocket Gems' expansion comes from its tactic of initiating novel
groups of games and collaborative amusement with Episode and War Dragons, financing
in basic expertise for example the Mantis graphics engine, and creating long-term
player groups.
"The Pocket Gems team has built an incredible
company," revealed Jim Goetz, associate at Sequoia Capital, adding,
"Pocket Gems stands alone as the only independent game developer in the
world with two entirely different top 50 category-creating titles, Episode and
War Dragons."
The enterprise is also revealing further investing from
Tencent, a top assimilated Internet facilities contributor in China, after
their opening outlay made in 2015. Pocket Gems will persist to function autonomously,
with Tencent and Sequoia Capital both staying as minority financiers.
"Tencent is happy to reaffirm our long term support for
our strategic partner, Pocket Gems," revealed Steven Ma, Senior Vice
President of Tencent, adding, "We admire their history of focusing on top
talent to create innovative new products that can delight users, and look
forward to a bright future ahead."
The Tencent financing will go towards sustaining key growths
for the Episode and War Dragons communities, along with the approaching presentation
of a novel studio creating 3D synchronous multiplayer mobile games for committed
gamers. Succeeding numerous years of expansion, Pocket Gems is proposing to present
the novel studio and its opening title afterwards this year.
The foremost of its variety, Episode is the globe's biggest
mobile collaborative storytelling platform, with above 55,000 stories and 3
billion episodes seen. Episode has combined with well-liked Hollywood
franchises and celebs like Mean Girls, Pretty Little Liars, and Demi Lovato to generate
appealing interactive stories. Furthermore, Episode functions thoroughly with over
6 million originators from its community to distribute a developing assortment
of user-generated stories.
One of the foremost synchronous multiplayer 3D games on
mobile, War Dragons augmented its player base year over year, with nearly 2
billion battles contested in 2016 alone. Constructed on Pocket Gems' exclusive
Mantis graphics engine, War Dragons has involved its community with actual 3D
graphics, 200+ exclusive dragons, crowdsourced art, and immersive live actions
with hundreds of thousands of concurrent players.
"We're excited to build on our partnership with
Tencent, whose unmatched strength in games will help us become one of the great
developers of mobile games and interactive entertainment in the world," revealed
Ben Liu, CEO of Pocket Gems, adding, "We're still in the early days of
mobile, and our pioneering team is eager to continue pushing the boundaries of
what's possible. The best is yet to come."
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