The annual growth rate for domestic games accelerated in the December quarter, compared with the previous three-month period.
International games revenue jumped 15% year-on-year to 16 billion. Over the past few years, Tencent has stepped up efforts overseas with games like PUBG Mobile, as the domestic games market slowed amid macroeconomic and regulatory headwinds.
Tencent's marketing services — or its advertising business — grew 17% year-on-year to 35 billion yuan in the fourth quarter. Tencent runs WeChat, China's biggest messaging app with more than 1.38 billion monthly active users. The company has been working on monetizing those users through different advertising products such as video and search.