Tencent's Arena of Valor Pre-Registration Now Open

Pre-registration for Tencent's enormously successful 5v5 mobile MOBA Arena of Valor officially opened up today and plays sign up at the game's official website. Anyone who pre-registers will get a variety of exclusive in game goodies on launch day including skins and in-game currency. While no official release date has been announced, I suspect Arena of Valor will be launching in the U.S. and Europe sometime in November.

While this may not seem like big news, Arena of Valor (called Honor of Kings in China) is already the world's most successful video game ever, bringing upwards of $441 million a month according to Bloomberg. To put that $441 million figure in context, World of Warcraft "only" makes (revenue) about $900M a year and League of Legends, the world's highest grossing PC game, makes about $1.8B a year. Arena of Valor is on pace to do well over double League of Legend's figure this year.

Beyond just revenue statistics, the game is immensely popular in China as well. According to Tencent the game reaches over 50M DAILY active users.

Check out my First Look for the game (Chinese version) below. Despite generally not enjoying mobile games, I actually had a lot of fun with this one and plan to check out the U.S. version when it launches.