Zhang will report to Hua Wei, who heads ByteDance’s human resources department.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a multiplayer online battle arena title developed and published by Moonton Technology, owned by the Nuverse unit of ByteDance. Photo: Handout
In an internal letter sent by Zhang and Hua on Friday, they pointed out that the video gaming business of ByteDance has “entered the second phase”.
“Moving forward, we will adhere to long-term [goals] and be more patient in product development and operation,” Zhang and Hua were quoted as saying in a report by Chinese media outlet GameLook.
In an apparent morale-boosting signal to the remaining ByteDance employees involved in the video gaming business, the report quoted Zhang and Hua as saying that the company is focused on creating “fun games”, while management will continue to monitor daily active users and study the profitability of future titles.
Anime-style, action role-playing game Crystal of Atlan was developed and published by ByteDance unit Nuverse. Photo: ByteDance
ByteDance in May agreed to sell C4Games studio, best-known for mobile title Red Alert Online, for 259 million yuan to a subsidiary of China Ruyi Holdings, a film and video game production outfit that is nearly 22 per cent-owned by Tencent.
In March, the South China Morning Post reported that Tencent’s LightSpeed Studios absorbed a video game project in Shenzhen previously owned by ByteDance’s Gravity Studio and an open-world project belonging to the TikTok owner’s Jiangnan Studio in Hangzhou.
Last November, ByteDance told employees that it would shut down most game projects that had not been released online, and sell rights to at least two Nuverse titles – the anime-style, action role-playing game Crystal of Atlan and sci-fi survival game Earth: Revival.
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