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Tencent and Tim Hortons will create esports themed coffee shops, including esports themed beverages, food and in store activities

- Tim Hortons opened its first coffee shop in China last year. Plan to open 1,500

- Tencent invested an undisclosed amount in the company this May
- The traditional Internet Cafe business model needs innovation and offline mobile gaming / esports cafe's is one avenue being explored.

- Customised spaces:

Fast Wi-fi, Gaming chairs, fast charging ports etc...

Traditional food and drink experience

In store events
- Coffee shops can become the third place for gamers and esports fans in the offline world.

- Backing from Tencent will allow for a broad range of content / initiatives in store.

- Drive customer loyalty through experience
For now, yes.

FIrst store is opening in November apparently.

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Chinese games company iDreamsky is creating new offline entertainment / gaming experiences with investment partners including Tencent, Sony & JD

Best described as the next generation of Internet Cafes, these retail stores offer compelling entertainment experiences

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iDreamsky is working with its investors to design a new innovative offline interactive entertainment service model that grows the value of entertainment and games IP.

The store aims to offer content across TV, Movies, Games & esports paired with e-commerce and catering.
The store offers both private and large scale spaces to experience various content.

For example you have the ability to watch on demand movie content in private rooms, or arrange a traditional theatre experience for 20+ people. Includes movies not out on VOD yet. Also KTV rooms
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The studio behind Black Myth: Wu Kong did an interview with Chinese media recently. You can watch it below (In Mandarin).

I will include some of the answers + other info from different interviews / posts in a thread below.

1. This game was known internally as Project S. If you followed any of the team on art station or other sites you could see they had been posting art and other teasers from the game for months, but this is when they have finally been able to show off the game in full to the world
2. The studio released this trailer to show the world what they had worked on, recruit new staff who have passion to work on the project, and to network better in the games industry.

3. They remain committed to creating a single player Action Adventure RPG with AAA standards.
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Going to do a quick thread on this game and the studio behind it. For those interested and for those writing about it.

- The developer is Game Science Studio which was founded in June 2014 by ex Tencent Games staff.

Here is their site- gamesci.com.cn
Prior to the studio founding, some of the staff worked at Tencent's Quantum studio on a game called 'Asura'.

This was essentially a Journey to the West themed MMORPG for PC that aimed to become a hit for the company.

Ultimately it ended up underperforming.
Some devs that worked on Asura left Tencent to form Game Science Studio in June 2014. The studio currently has locations in Shenzhen and Hangzhou.

They first worked on a F2P mobile RPG / Card game called 100 Heroes that was published by NetEase in 2015.
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