Tencent, Inc. was founded in November, 1998 and has grown into China's largest and most used Internet service portal. In its ten-year history, Tencent has been able to maintain steady and fast-paced growth by always putting its users first. On June 16th, 2004, Tencent Holdings Limited (HKSE: 0700.HK) went public on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
As one of the four online platforms of Tencent, Tencent Games is a world-class online game developer and operator, and is recognized as the largest online game community in China. In line with the Tencent online life strategy, Tencent Games is dedicated to the sustainable development of long term game-related products that are both healthy and competitive, responding to users' fundamental needs and ensuring ease of application. With an open attitude, Tencent Games is setting benchmarks in multi-segment online game markets by implementing a three-prong strategy of in-house development, licensing and co-development.
Tencent interactive entertainment currently offers over 60 games in five categories including Mini Casual Games, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Advanced Casual Games, Desktop Casual Games and the Battlenet Platform. Through QQ Three Kingdoms, QQ Huaxia, and QQ Free Fantasy, Tencent Games held on to its lead position in the MMOG market in 2007. QQ Game is the largest mini-casual game platform in the world, surpassing the 4 million peak concurrent user mark in early 2008. QQ Speed, Dungeon & Fighter, Cross Fire and QQ Dancer have also been highly successful this year in terms of both number of users and revenues.
QQ Fantasy is the first 2D cartoon style MMOG developed internally by Tencent. The game is based on Chinese mythological 'Journey to the West'.
