{"id":15525,"date":"2016-06-21T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/?p=15525"},"modified":"2016-06-21T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:48:21","slug":"tencent-acquires-supercell-makers-of-clash-of-clans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2016\/06\/21\/tencent-acquires-supercell-makers-of-clash-of-clans\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent acquires Supercell, makers of Clash of Clans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15526\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans.jpg\" alt=\"Clash of Clans\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Clash-of-Clans-171x96.jpg 171w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-supercell-m-a-tencent-holdings-idUSKCN0Z716E\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>China&#8217;s biggest gaming group Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is to buy a majority stake in &#8216;Clash of Clans&#8217; mobile game maker Supercell from SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) in a deal valued at roughly $8.6 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s impressive.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/supercell.com\/en\/nextchapter\/\">Supercell&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The total equity value of $10.2 billion dollars also recognizes the value of the phenomenal company that our people have built.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether it is $8.6 billion or $10.2 billion, Supercell has become one of the major developers of mobile gaming. As of \u00a0June 21, 2016, Supercell has 2 games on U.S. iTunes App Store Top Grossing Apps, Clash of Clans and Clash Royale at number 4 and 6, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s really interesting from <a href=\"http:\/\/supercell.com\/en\/nextchapter\/\">Supercell&#8217;s blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tencent&#8217;s people seem to love games as much as we do. In fact, in one of my meetings with Martin (their President), he had just dropped out from Clash Royale global top-100 players<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The President of Tencent likes Supercell\u00a0games so much, he acquires the company.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Supercell has four games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Clash of Clans<\/li>\n<li>Hay Day<\/li>\n<li>Boom Beach<\/li>\n<li>Clash Royale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters: China&#8217;s biggest gaming group Tencent Holdings Ltd (0700.HK) is to buy a majority stake in &#8216;Clash of Clans&#8217; mobile game maker Supercell from SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) in a deal valued at roughly $8.6 billion. That&#8217;s impressive. According to Supercell&#8217;s blog: The total equity value of $10.2 billion dollars also recognizes the value of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2016\/06\/21\/tencent-acquires-supercell-makers-of-clash-of-clans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tencent acquires Supercell, makers of Clash of Clans.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[3338,3336,3337,1243,3339,3335,936,3334],"class_list":["post-15525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boom-beach","tag-clash-of-clans","tag-clash-royale","tag-gaming","tag-hay-day","tag-supercell","tag-tech","tag-tencent"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-42p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15527,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15525\/revisions\/15527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}