Moonton

Shanghai Moonton Technology Co. Ltd., commonly known as Moonton, is a Chinese multinational video game developer and publisher owned by the Nuverse subsidiary of ByteDance and based in Shanghai, China. It is best known for the mobile multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Mobile Legends: Bang Bang released in July 2016. History Moonton was founded in 2015. The company was initially called YoungJoy Technology Limited, and it is headquartered in Shanghai, China. Moonton's first video game, the tower defense (TD) game Magic Rush: Heroes, was released on 6 April 2015. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang began development following the completion of Magic Rush: Heroes. Mobile Legends was released as Mobile Legends: 5v5 MOBA in 2016, and became popular in Southeast Asia, notably in Indonesia and Malaysia, where it was the most-downloaded free mobile game app among iPhone users in 2017. The game is distributed by Elex Tech in the United States. Products