Tencent Adding Supercell Games to WeChat, ‘Brawl Stars' First
Tencent Holdings Ltd. is converting some of the world's most popular mobile games into WeChat mini games.
Titles from subsidiary Supercell Oy, starting with the evergreen Brawl Stars, will soon be available to access directly in WeChat, adding to the cornucopia of services and functions built into China's most popular app. Used by 1.4 billion people every month, WeChat is Tencent's most prized piece of software, and the company has in recent times ramped up its monetization of the do-everything app.
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