There’s a new Pokémon game being made by China’s Tencent
Tencent’s Timi Studio, the team behind Arena of Valor and Call of Duty Mobile, is co-developing a new game with The Pokémon Company
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No further details have been released, so we still don’t know what the game is or when it’ll be released, but it’s an exciting development for the huge Pokémon franchise to finally make a splash in China.
It’s clear that The Pokémon Company has been eyeing up China for a while now, with varying degrees of success. 2016’s Pokémon Sun and Moon were released in Chinese at the same time as the English and Japanese versions. But on the flipside, global sensation Pokémon Go is still not available in China.
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So what do we know about the co-developer of the game, Timi Studio?
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