HONG KONG -- Gaming giant Tencent Holdings is providing rival companies with the tools to develop their own cloud-based games more easily, a move analysts say is aimed at snagging a bigger slice of China's cloud services market from archrival Alibaba Group Holding.
The Shenzhen-based gaming and social media heavyweight recently unveiled a cloud gaming framework that allows game companies to create new titles without having to hire an army of engineers to build the infrastructure from scratch.
