A new report has detailed plans by TikTok to enter the video games market.
The hugely-popular social app is conducting tests with in-app games in Vietnam, Reuters has said.
In response, Tiktok confirmed the gaming push, and said it was currently looking at bringing HTML5 games to its app from third-party pubishers such as Zynga.
Why Vietnam to start? As a country with the vast majority of its citizens under 35 - some 70 percent of the population - Tiktok may see a country primed to use its youth-orientated app.
In the US, two mini-games are already available via Tiktok and, as you’d expect, one of them includes dancing. Disco Loco 3D is described as a music and dance challenge mini-game while Garden of Good is a charity effort where you grow vegetables to donate to the non-profit Feeding America.
Today’s report suggests more traditional games are on the cards - albeit the Flash-style experiences you’d expect from HTML, and similar to the offerings present on Facebook and Netflix.
Reuters’ report suggested a launch elsewhere in Southeast Asia was next on the cards.
