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Inside Tencent’s Failed Attempt to Take On ‘Grand Theft Auto’

via Bloomberg Technology·independent coverage, not Tech Spindle reporting
Why this ranksBusiness Failure
28TS ScoreImpact + Innovation, combined
IMPACT55
INNOVATION0

Our take: Tencent game failure; significant corporate story but no tech innovation involved.

Why Impact & Innovation? We ask two questions of every story: did this actually change something in the real world (Impact), and is the idea genuinely new (Innovation)? Together, that's the TS Score — not engagement, not who posted it, just what matters and what's new.

Tencent spent six years and hundreds of millions of dollars developing a Grand Theft Auto competitor called Lightspeed's Last Sentinel that ultimately failed.

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