It is hard to believe that it was only 11 months ago we launched Phenixx Gaming. It has almost been a full year since I reviewed YAGER’s Spec Ops: The Line in possibly the weakest way imaginable, but it is still one of the greatest games narratively that utilizes its gameplay to tell the story. Since then, some of the team around the office at that time have gone to make Battlefront II, All Walls Must Fall, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. Yet as revealed at GamesCom: Opening Night Live, YAGER is still making games and going strong.

Just yesterday I was asked what YAGER had done most recently, The Cycle is a multiplayer shooter with competitive questing that’s both PVE and PVP dubbed “PvEvP.” I can’t say I’m the target demographic for this one, but there is someone impressed by this cross-genre mashup. The Shenzhen China-based conglomerate Tencent is a controversial name according to some, as is seen by the backlash against the Epic Games Store over the last year; even though the company’s majority shareholder is South African and not Chinese. Tencent is reportedly giving YAGER “a strategic minority investment,” for whatever that means.

“Tencent is not only the world’s leading games company but also a prolific investor with a stellar track record,” said YAGER CEO Timo Ullmann via a press release. Ullmann went on to say, “We’re humbled to join the line-up of Tencent partners, which reads like a games industry Who’s Who. We’re confident that this will greatly enhance the scope of our business, not just by getting access to Tencent’s network and resources, but by tapping the vast industry know-how Tencent possesses.”

The aforementioned “strategic minority investment” is to aid YAGER in their efforts to develop and self-publish from their studio in Berlin, Germany. The studio was founded 20 years ago and now boasts its employment of 110 people working on several different in-house projects.

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