Best known for acquiring a controlling stake in the successor to Telltale Games,[1] while also publishing SNK's weapon-based fighting game Samurai Shodown outside of Japan and China in 2019.

[4] In September 2018, Leyou had announced that they signed a deal with Middle-earth Enterprises to allow the company to develop and publish an online free-to-play game based on The Lord of the Rings.

[5] Later that year Athlon had announced that they had become the publisher of Samurai Shodown excluding in Japan and China, while also becoming a shareholder of LCG Entertainment, a company that had acquired the assets of Telltale Games, while also announcing that they'd become the future co-publisher of all upcoming Telltale titles, starting with the release of Batman: Shadows Edition in December 2019.

[1][6] In December 2020, it was announced by Leyou that they'd be acquired by Tencent under their Image Frame Investment subsidiary.

[7] On April 17, 2021, after several years in development, Tencent and Amazon had announced that when they had been in contract negotiations for the planned The Lord of the Rings game, a dispute had begun between the two, ultimately causing Amazon to cancel the planned title.