Tencent Games announces Honor of Kings: World

In 2015, Tencent Video video games and developer TiMi Studio Group launched Honor of Kings, a multiplayer on-line battle space (MOBA) recreation for mobile models. By 2017, Honor of Kings was clocking over 80 million each day avid gamers, a amount that has climbed even higher since.

It’s doable you’ll be additional acquainted with the game’s worldwide adaptation, Enviornment of Valor — a “Westernized” revamp with a significantly altered aesthetic. A direct competitor to League of Legends, Enviornment of Valor touts 108 heroes and counting.

Each means, there’s a flashy new open-world RPG on the horizon, and it owes its existence to its franchise forebear: Honor of Kings: World. Props to Gematsu for importing our thrilling first look:

Perhaps most intriguingly of all, Tencent has revealed that the game is being crafted in collaboration with well-known Chinese language language science-fiction author Liu Cixin. Cixin’s epic trilogy, Remembrance of Earth’s Earlier — additional usually referred to by the title of its first e-book, The Three-Physique Disadvantage — has given him the excellence of being the first Asian author ever to win a Hugo Award.

Little else is thought of Honor of Kings: World in the meanwhile, with no launch window to reference and by no means even an inventory of centered platforms. (PC is barely probably, nevertheless even that’s technically unconfirmed for now.) The centered seen fidelity this announcement trailer insinuates would strongly advocate a current-gen solely methodology, nevertheless that’s pure conjecture on my half.