The announcement follows an exclusive Reuters report last week that Unity was in talks to spin off its China unit to help it expand in the world’s biggest games market.
Partners in the joint venture include Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, China Mobile Ltd, OPPO, ByteDance’s Douyin Group, PCI Technology Group Co Ltd and G-Bits Network Technology Xiamen Co Ltd, Unity said in a statement on its official WeChat account.
The company will retain majority ownership and control of the Chinese JV, Unity said.
The JV, named Unity China, will shortly start building local custom versions of its core products for game developers and will become the exclusive distributor of Unity’s products and services in China, according to the statement.
Unity entered China in 2012 and its eponymous software, known as a game engine, powers many of the country’s most popular games, including miHoYo’s “Genshin Impact”.
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