ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, has pushed its flagship gaming studio Nuverse to centre stage by launching a stand-alone website for the development and publishing team, a sign of its commitment to gaming as the Beijing-based unicorn seeks to profit from its vast user base and challenge arch rival Tencent.
Although Nuverse, led by a former Tencent executive, was established in 2019, the roll-out of the new website – which lists all the gaming titles from the studio – represents one of ByteDance’s biggest public commitments to video game development. Last month, the company did a soft launch of a new cloud gaming platform called Aoligame.