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Leyou Technologies Holdings

Suite 3201, Tower Two, Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong

Overview

Leyou Group is a game development and distribution company that pioneers a multiplayer online game free model. The company is a developer and publisher of PC and home console video games around the globe, and also a market leader in the niche of free-to-play online multiplayer games. It owns several game development studios across the world, including the globally renowned Digital Extremes and Splash Damage, and has around 600 full-time employees. Leyou is running several free-to-play multiplayer games. Warframe, one of its flagship products, is self-created and published by Digital Extremes. The game has constantly maintained a top ten ranking among all games on Steam, and ranks third in the free-to-play category, behind only Dota 2 and Team Fortress 2. Leyou is focused on developing new free-to-play online multiplayer games and maintains a strong pipeline, including The Amazing Eternals, Transformers Online, Civilization Online, and other unannounced projects. Its product strategy is to focus on the development of high-quality PC and home console video games, driven by a free-to-play business model. Leyou will further expand its internal developing and publishing teams and build synergies within existing studios and functions, continue to look for opportunities to acquire additional world-class game studios to further increase the company’s development capabilities, and work closely with various business partners, including renowned IP owners, to expand our ability to develop and publish world-class videogames. Headquartered in Admiralty, Hong Kong Island, Leyou was founded by Alex Xu in 2011.

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Investment portfolio

  • Certain Affinity

    Led · Debt Financing · Oct 2017

    Certain Affinity is an Austin, Texas–based independent video game developer founded in 2006 by Max Hoberman. The studio develops original games and has co-developed prominent action titles and collections, including entries in Call of Duty, Halo, DOOM and Left 4 Dead. It operates more than 125 full-time employees and plans to expand operations with a new headquarters and new game initiatives. Under its agreement with Leyou, Certain Affinity will develop and produce an original game based on licensed intellectual property with Leyou’s direction and cooperation. The company will receive a portion of the net revenue from that game and may draw on an interest-free, non-recourse loan facility from Leyou to cover development costs. The studio will continue to operate independently following the investment.

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