Our latest coverage of Arena of Valor.
Honour of Kings has been one of Tencent’s top grossing and most successful games since it was released in China in 2017. The game’s western port Arena of Valor, however, didn’t quite do as well as they’d hoped, currently averaging just 150,000 daily active users in North America. According to Reuter’s sources, Tencent has effectively given up on the mobile [...]
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Tencent's wildly popular mobile MOBA Honor of Kings (known as Arena of Valor in the West) made approximately CNY 7 Billion (~$1.04 billion) in revenue last month according to a research report from Japanese investment bank Nomura. The increase in revenue last month can be attributed to a highly anticipated expansion pack to the game which launched in mid-January which [...]
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This Asian Games 2018 is the official debut of Esports at a mainstream sporting event, running from August 26th to September 1st, the five day demonstration event showcases top Asian Esports talents representing their country in the industry's most popular games. Games that were chosen for the much hyped event include Arena of Valor, Clash Royale, Hearthstone, League of Legends, [...]
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While eSports is growing incredibly quickly in the West, it's still a niche market. That's not the case in China though. According to Bloomberg, premier tournaments like the King Pro League get as many as 240 million daily views, which is 2x the audience of last year's Super Bowl. The King Pro League is the biggest tournament of the year [...]
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Despite enormous success in its home market of China, Arena of Valor hasn't made the same inroads in the Western market. It isn't exactly a disaster though as the game has reached 1 million downloads on both iOS and Android combined since launching into beta in December 2017 according to mobile game analytics firm Sensor Tower. Revenue in Western markets [...]
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Welcome to the MMOs.com Game of the Year Awards 2017 Edition. This year, we have introduced some new categories and trimmed old ones. We have also continued our Golden Coffee Cup trophy logo. Why not a chalice, you ask? Because chalices are overrated and coffee cups are more practical. Without further ado, I give you our games of the year. [...]
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Arena of Valor Gameplay First Look - MMOs.com (Mobile MOBA)Watch this video on YouTube Arena of Valor Gameplay First Look Arena of Valor is a free to play 5v5 mobile MOBA developed and published by Tencent Games. It plays a lot like League of Legends, but streamlined for mobile play with things like auto-targeting. Despite being designed for mobile, Arena [...]
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The unbelievably successful 5v5 mobile MOBA from Tencent, Arena of Valor, just soft launched in North America today and it's a big deal. Arena of Valor is easily the world's highest grossing game, earning a whopping $435M a month. Playerbase wise the game reported over 100 million daily active users, and that was back when it was only available in [...]
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Just last month, Tencent had begun imposing time restrictions on its mega-hit game Arena of Valor (Honor of Kings) in China, thanks to increasing concern from Chinese officials and the general public from recent game-related incidents that had taken place. According to the new time restrictions imposed, children under the age of 13 were only allowed 1 hour of daily [...]
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Tencent's wildly successful 5v5 mobile MOBA Arena of Valor is launching in the U.S. after changing its name from Strike of Kings on October 10th. The game is known as "Honor of Kings" in China and is the world's highest grossing video game despite only being fully launched in China. The massiveness of Arena of Valor cannot be understated. The [...]
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