{"id":481706,"date":"2026-02-17T23:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481706\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T23:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T23:20:11","slug":"tencent-secretly-funded-struggling-shooter-highguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/481706\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent secretly funded struggling shooter Highguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!u9xd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F551308df-992e-4500-a133-0397d895f163_1920x1080.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/551308df-992e-4500-a133-0397d895f163_1920.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"819\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/551308df-992e-4500-a133-0397d895f163_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:429716,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/i\/188295226?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F551308df-992e-4500-a133-0397d895f163_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Highguard. Screenshot: Wildlight Entertainment<\/p>\n<p>Chinese gaming giant Tencent was the undisclosed lead financial backer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildlight.gg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlight Entertainment<\/a>, the studio behind 2026\u2019s most tumultuous game launch, sources familiar with the matter tell Game File.<\/p>\n<p>Neither company has previously discussed the financial relationship, and reps for both did not provide a comment by press time.<\/p>\n<p>Wildlight\u2019s funding has been one of several mysteries swirling around the studio and its debut game, free-to-play first-person multiplayer shooter Highguard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highguard. Screenshot: Wildlight Entertainment Chinese gaming giant Tencent was the undisclosed lead financial backer of Wildlight Entertainment, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-481706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}