Chinese tech giant Tencent and one of its studios, TiMi Studio Group, are not just focusing on China with Honor of Kings: World game: they have openly international plans for the newly announced open-world action RPG.

Tencent has announced on Weibo, China’s Twitter replacement (Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are blocked there), that they are bringing Honor of Kings: World (a name that sounds a lot like Monster Hunter: World, no?) to the West, based on the very popular Honor of Kings on mobile (Android, iOS), but no release date or target platforms are known yet.

Tencent Games and TiMi Studio Group have also announced that they will be working with Liu Cixin to ensure that his take on Chinese culture and aesthetics will be part of Honor of Kings: World. Liu is a science fiction writer and may be known for his Three-Body Problem trilogy (and we recall that a TV adaptation is happening, we heard about that in June or so). So Tencent is taking this very seriously.

It’s also worth mentioning Honor of Kings. It’s a competitive, combat-based game for iOS and Android that launched in China in November 2015. According to TiMi Studio Group, it was the first game in the world to reach 100 million daily active users and one of its highest-grossing titles of all time. There are over a billion people in China, and therefore hundreds of millions of potential players, skewing results towards Tencent’s favour. Hence, it is easy to have such a result.

It’s not out of the question that Honor of Kings: World will miss out on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, and it’s logical to speculate that Tencent could be planning for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PC trio with the game, which will likely continue the success of the Chinese domestic success. What the overseas performance will be, it’s too early to say.

Source: Gematsu