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  • Travel East, my son! CrowdStar takes top franchises to China, South Korea
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    Travel East, my son! CrowdStar takes top franchises to China, South Korea

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    Hot on the heels of their much-publicized emancipation from the Facebook platform, and self-proclaimed conversion to the church of mobile, social gaming mainstay CrowdStar is ready to take their show on the road, expanding a couple of their most popular franchises into the (ironically named) Wild West of mobile gaming: Southeast Asia. How will they make it out there? With the a little help from their friends, of course.
  • With Tencent’s purchase of Riot Games, a sleeping dragon awakens
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    With Tencent’s purchase of Riot Games, a sleeping dragon awakens

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    OK, so it's not "casual" games news, but what does that mean that team "casual" mean days anyway? In big news that could have a huge impact on the entire games industry, Tencent has acquired Riot Games for $400 million. Riot Games is the creator of the popular browser-based, online fantasy fighting game League of Legends, boasting more than 1 million active players and logging more than 500 million minutes of game play a month. The company was formed in 2008 to create "session-based" online games. So what's the big deal, you ask? One word: Tencent. Tencent isn't just the largest Internet company in China. It's the third largest publicly-held company in the world.