Tencent and others injected 8 million U.S. dollars into online games publisher Riot Games

In addition to this round of investors-venture capital firm Benchmark Capital and FirstMark Capital, there is a leading provider of Internet value-added service-Tencent.

The completion of this round of investments will help solidify Riot Games’ leadership as online games charge company which has a new mode of props of the next generation.

While the props charging model in western markets has just begun, but the mode of free games, props of charge business model has become mainstream in Asia. Currently Most North American and European publishers are still considering charging on time mode priorly, but Riot Games has fully accepted the props charging mode, and believes that this will be the global opportunities of future games.

Wabei.com was informed that in November 2008 Tencent formally signed 3D real-time strategy online game-”Legend of the League” (League of Legends) developed by Roit Games and the game was scheduled to launch in mainland China in 2010.

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