Tencent's TiMi Forms 'Strategic Partnership' With Xbox Game Studios

Probably some Xbox IPs getting mobile games.
I know Forza already has one, but don't think any others do.

"Communist" China is a threat.

@Oval_Griffin LOL, You type of people crack me up.

@Xiovanni Explain???

Ugh. I wish people would just tell Tencent to bugger off. They ruin everything they touch.

Ugh...not more Tencent.... Their tendrils are getting into absolutely everything in the gaming industry and that can't be good.

OTOH, how does this even make sense. Why would Xbox want a mobile dev involved in anything when the whole point of Game Pass on Android and iOS is to put access to full games on phones, not putting MS IPs into mobile apps.

That's a hard pass.......

@SegataSanshiro Good point. I wouldn't think app assistance would be a "strategic partnership", but touch controls and the like would be in their area. I've been playing with that recently. It's a pretty cool feature.

Could also involve getting Game Pass on iOS, since they have that browser hack thing going on.

@SegataSanshiro Yeah, I have a Razer Raiju mobile for my phone, but I hate using phones for games completely - sucks the battery life and longevity away from actual phone use, and I can get my phone down to 48% without games on a good day, so I never actually use it, and opt for Switch when looking for a "full console game" on the go. But now that I finally expired out of my years of pre-paid Gold and just upped my GP to GPU (since it's cheaper than buying separately) I now have cloud games. I'm probably not going to grab Raiju much, if at all, but tinkering with the touch control games seems perfect. I tried Dead Cells (that's painful, and not really my kind of game) and Minecraft Dungeons so far and it ran great. I might try Yooka/Impossible lair since I have a save file half way through (here's to cloud saves), and Pillars of Eternity 2 next....it's a super cool feature that, to me, takes the idea of "play anytime, anywhere" idea of Switch to new heights since you can play on console, on PC, or randomly on your phone for 5 minutes with proper, native, carptastic controls without being "that guy" that brings out a pile of accessories to clip their phone into. I haven't tried Gears....touch controls aside, I don't know how playing those kinds of games on small screens really works. I mean I have Switch as a comparison, and I still keep demanding Switch XL for that very reason (How does anyone even use a Lite??) The controls I don't mind. I'm used to unpredictable, half-baked, illogical and unresponsive touch controls for complex games. I bought a launch day Vita.

Still, whenever Tencent is involved in anything, it's cause for massive concern. Call me crazy but the intelligence arm of authoritarian governments installing software on my hardware that has account and profile information on it gets me nervous. I don't use Facebook for a reason.

@SegataSanshiro Remember the Lenovo computers that had spyware installed that would report everything to the Chinese government? And if you removed it and clean reinstalled Windows, it would come back, because it was actually baked into the CMOS ROM to install it every time Windows was booted? And it made it as far as the DoD with all the requisite security checks before anyone discovered it?

And then after they were caught......they did it again? And then again?

Yeah.....

I don't trust anything coming out of Chinese business because any major (read global-reaching) Chinese business is the government, and the government is the business. They're one and the same, and can't be separated. Tencent, though, is at a whole other level. It's an agency pretending to be a company. Like the CIA front companies, except they're better at hide and seek. I mean they're literally the spy-arm of the whole total surveillance system. "But that's only if you're in China" you might say. But they're building the surveillance system worldwide...it'll either be controlled or for sale to other countries behind the scenes. Not that the US hasn't tried it (we all remember Carnivore Echelon in the 90's. ) It's just the that Chinese actually succeed at it where our government just dumps endless money than flails around on the ground like a flipped over turtle....that's what makes them endearing. They're too incompetent for authoritarianism.

That's not to say escaping "made in China" is possible. But software and phones...no way. PCs you can work around. Phones, those things are a pandora's box of things nobody even knows they're capable of.

I remember an interview with Bill Gates years ago where he talked about doing business in China being a losing proposition. He said that in every other country in the world, even the high piracy ones, they at least never had problems with government agencies, they at least bought their Windows and Office copies legally even where most of the businesses pirated. Not in China, even the government agencies just pirated it blatantly....he'd not experienced that anywhere else in the world. "Ethics" just has a whole other meaning there.

mobile gaming is a bunch of rubbish .and only paves the way for
for more developers to go free 2 play. opening the door for in game gambling and loot box's. i am not in support of this

@SegataSanshiro Millions of people use Facebook. Doesn't mean Facebook is safe. It means most people are certifiable morons. But a cursory glance of the past 3000 years of history already told us that.