Tencent Holdings is developing a global version of its WeGame platform in Hong Kong, with an eye to extending the reach of China-developed personal computer video games to a potentially large overseas audience. Photo: Shutterstock

Tencent’s WeGame platform in push to go global, heating up rivalry with PC gaming site Steam

Rival platforms WeGame and Steam compete in the global personal computer video games market, which is forecast to be worth US$28.6 billion this year

Topic | China technology

Iris Deng and Zheping Huang

Published: 11:02am, 8 Jul, 2018

Updated: 8:57am, 10 Jul, 2018

Tencent Holdings is developing a global version of its WeGame platform in Hong Kong, with an eye to extending the reach of China-developed personal computer video games to a potentially large overseas audience. Photo: Shutterstock

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Iris Deng

Iris is a Hong Kong-based technology reporter at the Post.

Zheping Huang

Zheping is a technology reporter covering cryptocurrency, blockchain and gaming for the South China Morning Post. He is a contributor to Inkstone. Previously he wrote about China for Quartz.