Honor of Kings, one of the most successful mobile games of all time, is getting a global release. Level Infinite announced today that Honor of Kings will be released to the rest of the world and that invitations to a closed beta will be sent out soon.
We have great news! We will be rolling out Honor of Kings by TiMi Studio Group to you global gamers by the end of this year!
Rounds of closed beta tests will be gradually announced starting next month.
Please be patient and stay tuned for more updates! pic.twitter.com/T8ZN1ZLM8Y
— Level Infinite (@LevelInfinite) June 7, 2022
Do not be worried if you have a sense of déjà vu. The matrix is not faulty. Tencent, Honor of Kings’ publisher, has technically done this before with Arena of Valor, a westernized version of Honor of Kings, published in 2017.
Honor of Kings is a 5v5 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game, akin to Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s DOTA 2. In Honor of Kings, players can design their teams using heroes from Chinese mythology, and the game offers rich social features such as chat integration that uses famous Chinese social networks such as QQ and WeChat. It’s unclear whether these capabilities will be included in the global version of Honor of Kings or if they’ll be replaced with Western-focused apps like Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp.
Mobile games are the most popular type of gaming worldwide. Call of Duty Mobile, Candy Crush, and PUBG Mobile generate billions of dollars in revenue each year. Even in markets such as the United States and Europe, where mobile gaming has an awful connotation, it continues to dominate gaming revenue and download charts with breakout hits such as Genshin Impact and, more recently, Diablo Immortal. It makes perfect sense for Tencent and TiMi Studio Group to want to broaden their reach with Honor of Kings in a climate that looks almost inexhaustibly hungry for new mobile games.
