Pocket Gems Persists With Effective Tactic of Mobile Category Formation; Obtains Supplementary Financing from Tencent



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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