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Ilinox

No, it could have been published by Tencent Games (that's the publishing division you're thinking about), but Tencent seems uninterested in publishing the majority of their games to the global market. The divisions you listed are their internal studios and Aurora Studios is the developer of Light and Night.

During the whole November spook, people already dug up that the third party publisher is VNGGames.

Just to get everyone on the same page, there are video game developers and video game publishers. Sometimes, a single company is both developer and publisher like Blizzard. Sometimes, companies want to clean their reputation (because people are sinophobic—) and so they have subsidiaries like Mihoyo has Hoyoverse (formerly Cognosphere) and Papergames has Infold Games.

No, it could have been published by Tencent Games (that's the publishing division you're thinking about), but Tencent seems uninterested in publishing the majority of their games to the global market. The divisions you listed are their internal studios and Aurora Studios 

During the whole November spook, people already dug up that the third party publisher is VNGGames.

Just to get everyone on the same page, there are 

. Sometimes, a single company is both developer and publisher like Blizzard. Sometimes, companies want to clean their reputation (because people are sinophobic—) and so they have subsidiaries like Mihoyo has Hoyoverse (formerly Cognosphere) and Papergames has Infold Games.

Does LnN SEA really have to be released under 3rd party or could tencent release it under one of their divisions: Aurora Studios, LightSpeed Studios, Morefun Studio Group, NExT Studios, TiMi Studio Group or Level infinite. 

Ilinox

Hypothetical situation ?