http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-08-03-segas-jurgen-post-joins-tencent

Former Sega Europe boss Jurgen Post has joined Tencent.

Post takes the role of President of International Partnerships for Europe.

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Tencent has this past week invested in two UK studios. It acquired 9% of Elite: Dangerous creator Frontier Developments, and also invested an undisclosed amount of money in Milky Tea.

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Post is a highly experienced games industry executive, having initially joined from the music industry. He spent over ten years at Sega, and was instrumental in the company's turnaround and restructure, having led Sega Europe and studios such as Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive, Relic, Amplitude and Hardlight.

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Probably they will start buying developers for the western market. In China they control the majority of the PC Gaming and Mobile market

Great get for both parties. Jurgen gets a front seat in the Tencent train while the latter gets his expertise and knowledge in Europe.

Wonder if Tencent will do more built-in acquisitions like what Jurgen has been doing and how that will either influence it's overall presence in Europe (WeGame?) or vice versa (software in China)

Suspect that if anything they'll slowly build stable dependable assets and give them autonomy like what Jurgen did in Sega Europe, but who knows.