Bilibili is bringing Fall Guys to China as a mobile game following the battle royale’s success on PC and PS4
- Fall Guys, from British studio Mediatonic, has become a summer sensation after launching in August
- Chinese game companies like Tencent are known for bringing mobile versions of hit PC and console games to consumers
Fall Guys is officially coming to smartphones … in China.
Chinese online video giant Bilibili recently announced that it’s bringing a mobile version of the global breakout hit to its home market. The game is currently available for preregistration on Bilibili’s game platform. As of Monday morning, more than 130,000 users have expressed interests.
Bilibili says it will be the Fall Guys mobile publisher in China, but there’s no news yet about the mobile version in other countries. Bilibili also hasn’t given a release date for the game.
The announcement was made just a couple days before the game’s developer, London-based Mediatonic, warned players that ads for a mobile version of Fall Guys were scams. On Monday, the company confirmed Bilibili’s announcement but it seemed to suggest that Mediatonic itself isn’t working on a mobile version right now.
“We can confirm Bilibili have secured publishing rights to a mobile version in China,” said Paul Croft, co-founder of Mediatonic.
“As you can imagine, we‘ve had a lot of questions about platforms since launch, and of course we’d love to release on more platforms in the future but for now we’re focusing our efforts on PC and PS4”
