{"id":82826,"date":"2019-02-15T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336830"},"modified":"2019-02-15T22:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T22:42:00","slug":"report-tencent-wants-to-distribute-apex-legends-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/02\/15\/report-tencent-wants-to-distribute-apex-legends-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Tencent wants to distribute Apex Legends in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent is looking to bring\u00a0<em>Apex Legends<\/em> to China.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/2186371\/tencent-talks-ea-bring-hit-battle-royale-game-apex-legends-china\">South China Morning Post<\/a>, the Chinese tech giant is discussing the possibility with Electronic Arts to bring the Respawn-developed\u00a0battle royale title into the country.<\/p>\n<p>This business move makes sense, seeing as how <em>Apex Legends<\/em>\u00a0has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336715\/Apex_Legends_already_beat_Fortnites_singleday_viewership_record_on_Twitch.php\">already surpassed<\/a>\u00a0<em>Fortnite&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>single-day viewship record on Twitch, and has crossed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/336264\/Apex_Legends_crossed_1_million_concurrent_players_in_under_72_hours.php\">1 million concurrent players<\/a> just under 72 hours after its intial launch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If the deal is successful, this would be the third battle-royale\u00a0title under Tencent&#8217;s repitoire\u00a0of popular games. It currently oversees Chinese distribution for <em>Fornite<\/em> (Tencent\u00a0holds a minority stake in Epic Games) and <em>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent is looking to bring\u00a0Apex Legends to China. As reported by the South China Morning Post, the Chinese tech giant is discussing the possibility with Electronic Arts to bring the Respawn-developed\u00a0battle royale title into the country. This business move makes sense, seeing as how Apex Legends\u00a0has already surpassed\u00a0Fortnite&#8217;s\u00a0single-day viewship record on Twitch, and has crossed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82826","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\/82826","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=82826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}