Yoozoo Games (trading name of Youzu Interactive) is a
video game developer and
publisher of
browser and
mobile games, primarily
massively multiplayer online games (MMORPG), in Asia, Europe and North America. The company was founded in 2009 by
Lin Qi, created GTArcade and started publishing its titles overseas in 2013,[3] and was listed on the Shenzhen stock exchange in 2014.[4]
Many of its games obtain revenue from the sale of virtual goods[5] and the majority are developed in-house. Its most popular international game is a browser-based MMORPG titled League of Angels. This game began as a stand-alone game for the Chinese market but later was adapted for a growing international market. The game was released in English-speaking countries in late 2013 and now has over 300 servers in operation.[6]
Lin Qi (Chinese:
林奇;pinyin: LINQI, born in 1981 in
Wenzhou,
Zhejiang), also known as Titan Lin, was a Chinese entrepreneur and founder of Youzu Interactive. The company, which produces games for both its home markets and overseas markets, was acquired by Susino Umbrella[8] in an all-stock deal in 2014. Lin Qi owned approximately 100.9 million shares of Youzu, which were last valued at $2.2 billion, according to Wealth-X.[9] On December 25, 2020, Lin Qi died at age 39. He was allegedly poisoned on December 16 by one of his colleagues,[10][11] Xu Yao, who was sentenced to death in 2024 for the murder.[12][13]
Youzu Games HongKong Limited was founded in early 2013 in Hong Kong[14] and focuses on localizing and operating massively multiplayer games in North America and Europe. In 2016, Youzu bought German online game developer
Bigpoint for $89.7 million.[15]
Video games
League of Angels
League of Angels (Abbreviation: LoA) is an MMORPG released in December 2013 by Youzu Interactive.[16]LoA's China release took place in July 2013, with the North American version following shortly in December of that year.[17]League of Angels was chosen in December 2014 as one of the best new games on Facebook for that year.[18]
League of Angels II (also League of Angels 2 or LoA2) is the 2016 sequel to the 2013 game. Its impending release was announced on March 15,[19] and a 5,000-player
closed beta ran from March 24[20] to 31,[21] then replaced with an
open beta. It launched on April 8 in North America, and two weeks later there was a free gold giveaway to promote playing.[22] The game's European release occurred on May 19.[23] The game's first multilanguage release (English, French, German,
simplified Chinese and
traditional Chinese) was released on May 26,[24] then in Portuguese and Spanish on June 23.[25][26]
Infinity Kingdom
Infinity Kingdom (Abbreviated as IK) is a
freemiumcartoonmobilestrategy video game, released on January 28, 2021, for both
iOS and
Android. The Android version was released on
Google Play,
Huawei Appgallery, and
Samsung Galaxy Store. An APK is also available on the Infinity Kingdom website. A PC version was released on
Steam[27] on July 2, 2021.
The game is currently available in English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese and Tradiditonal Chinese. For the future, Korean, Japanese, Arabic and Bengali translations are planned.