Star Wars 7 director shakes hands with Tencent to enter the gaming world

Director of hit action movies: Star Wars 7, Star Trek Into Darkness, Mission: Impossible III and is the operator of Bad Robot Productions – JJ Abrams now also wants to “embed” in the rapidly developing game world. This can be said to be a strong but also somewhat unrelated transformation of a company specializing in film production. Today, the side Bad Robot has officially announced the establishment of a branch Bad Robot Gamesspecializes in the production of games targeting all mobile, PC and console markets.
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To achieve this ambition, director Star Wars decided to cooperate with the “big man” of the game village from China – Tencent. This company will presumably provide funding and sponsorship, in exchange for commercial rights to distribute the resulting titles. The Bad Robot side will let its designers, visual artists and specialist writers collaborate with the developers. In addition, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment also contribute shares and will be run by Dave Baronoff.
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JJ Abrams​

“I’m a huge fan of games, and increasingly envious of the great tools developers can work with and the worlds they can enter. Now we’re trying. working with partners in the most effective way. Dave’s creativity, deep passion and skillful leadership will be invaluable support to us. by our partner Tencent also helps bring our games to players around the world.– JJ Abrams said.
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Tencent has now been acquired Riot Games and this company’s extremely popular game is “League of Legends”. And director JJ Abrams and Bad Robot have a famous sci-fi series Cloverfield. So it’s highly likely that through this combination, Tencent and Bad Robot will release TV series, movies accompanied by a game adaptation themed on the theme of the war against aliens. Tencent will maintain the commercial rights to release Bad Robot Games in Asia.
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