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August 18, 2020

The video game startups on Tencent’s Europe list

Tencent is on a shopping spree of video game startups in Europe, and buying a stake in France’s Voodoo is its latest move. Here’s who else made the Chinese conglomerate’s list.


Voodoo co-founders Alexandre Yazdi (left) and Laurent Ritter.

Tencent has bought a minority stake in France’s video game maker Voodoo, showing a steady appetite by the Chinese conglomerate for European gaming companies big and small.

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