Chinese mobile games take 19 of top 100 spots in US games market in first quarter amid Covid boom


By Josh Ye

Chinese Internet and social media giant Tencent featured with its PUBG Mobile game, as did Lilith Games with Rise Of Kingdoms. — SCMP

Chinese mobile games accounted for 19 of the top 100 highest-grossing games in the US in the first quarter, according to data from Apple’s App Store and Google Play, raking in a combined US$487mil (RM2.09bil) in revenue and underlining the drive by some developers overseas.

Chinese Internet and social media giant Tencent Holdings featured with its PUBG Mobile game, as did Lilith Games with Rise Of Kingdoms and FunPlus with Guns Of Glory, according to the report published this week by the San Francisco-based data firm.

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