{"id":110947,"date":"2020-03-27T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/360262"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:14:00","slug":"tencent-and-huawei-are-working-on-a-mobile-cloud-gaming-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/27\/tencent-and-huawei-are-working-on-a-mobile-cloud-gaming-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent and Huawei are working on a mobile cloud gaming platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech companies Tencent and Huawei&nbsp;have partnered&nbsp;to develop a&nbsp;mobile cloud gaming platform.<\/p>\n<p>The collaboration was announced at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/innovation\/article\/3077287\/chinese-tech-giants-tencent-huawei-team-develop-mobile-cloud-gaming\">via South China Morning Post<\/a>), and will see the pair establish a game development lab to explore various technologies including cloud streaming, artificial intelligence, and VR\/AR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the area of cloud&nbsp;streaming specifically, a WeChat post from Tencent explained the lab will be working&nbsp;on turning its&nbsp;&#8216;GameMatrix&#8217; cloud gaming platform into an &#8220;industry-leading, high-quality and low-cost mobile cloud gaming solution.&#8221; It&nbsp;has also been tasked with&nbsp;developing new chip features, debugging tools, and optimization solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent is one of the biggest names in the games industry, and is best known as the owner of<em> League of Legends<\/em> developer Riot Games and for publishing popular&nbsp;titles like <em>Rocket League<\/em>, <em>PUBG Online<\/em>, and <em>Call of Duty: Online<\/em> in China.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Huawei, meanwhile, is one of the world&#8217;s most prominent&nbsp;consumer electronics and telecommunications companies, and as of 2018 was&nbsp;the second-largest smartphone manufactuer in the world behind Samsung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese tech companies Tencent and Huawei&nbsp;have partnered&nbsp;to develop a&nbsp;mobile cloud gaming platform. The collaboration was announced at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (via South China Morning Post), and will see the pair establish a game development lab to explore various technologies including cloud streaming, artificial intelligence, and VR\/AR.&nbsp; In the area of cloud&nbsp;streaming specifically, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}