Winking Studios Ltd. (China)

The Company was incorporated in the Cayman Islands on 15 December 2005 pursuant to the Cayman Islands Companies Act as an exempted company with limited liability, under the name “Winking Entertainment Ltd”The Company's registration number is 159882. The Company is the holding company of the Group, and was incorporated to rationalise the corporate structure of their Group. Some of the subsidiaries had already commenced operations in certain jurisdictions prior to the incorporation of our Company in 2005. The Company changed its name to “Winking Studios Limited” with effect from 17 May 2023.
Winking Studios Limited is one of Asia s largest game art outsourcing studios and an established game development company. With over 25 years of experience, the company has three businesses include Art Outsourcing Segment, which is its largest segment and involves the creation and development of digital art assets including 2D concept art, 3D modelling, 2D animation, 3D animation and visual effects such as environment design and game character design. Its two other complementary business segments are Game Development Segment, where the Group provides game development services including programming, development, design and script writing of games; and Global Publishing and Other Services Segment, which involves the release of games products produced by the Group as well as third party game developers on global game platforms including PlayStation, Switch and Steam, and the sale of the Group's in-house developed video game products and peripheral gaming products.
History
1997 Mr. Johnny Jan, first ventured into the game development business in Taipei, Taiwan under the branding of “WindThunder” (“風雷”), together with a team comprising seven to eight artists, animators and game developers.
2000 WindThunder Era Corporation was subsequently incorporated by Mr. Johnny Jan, which operated WindThunder Studio (風雷工作室).
2002 2003 PC games Heroine's Anthem 1 and Heroine's Anthem 2 was launched which primarily focused on the in-house conceptualisation and development of games, both of which achieved commercial success in major markets.
204-2007 The Group started to offer full cycle game development services to the customers, which include the pre-production, production and post-production phases of the game development process
2008-2015 The Group developed the game titled X.A.O.C in-house, the intellectual property of which is owned by the Group, and which achieved commercial success in Taiwan and was awarded the GameStar Silver Award for the best domestic self-made online game in 2013.
2016 till present Under the Art Outsourcing Segment, The Group collaborated with other industry players on the development of various well-known game titles such as “Genshin Impact” since 2018, “Destiny 2” and “Lineage 2M” since 2019, “Assassin's Creed” in 2020 and “New World” since 2021.
Winking Art was Incorporated at the Singapore headquarters of the Group. Acer Gaming, a wholly owned subsidiary of Acer, became the single largest shareholder of the Company