Chukong Technologies

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Chukong Technologies
Type Private
Industry Video games
FoundedNovember 12, 2010 [1]
Headquarters Beijing
Website www.chukong-inc.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Chukong Technologies also maintains and leads development on the Cocos2D-x game engine, [16] an open-source cross-platform development engine used by 400,000 developers around the world [17] including leading studios like Zynga, Konami, GREE, and Glu. [18]

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Chukong Technologies
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