{"id":10540,"date":"2025-08-20T01:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10540\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:17:09","slug":"tencent-game-studio-eyes-global-growth-with-honour-of-kings-spin-off-after-user-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10540\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent game studio eyes global growth with Honour of Kings spin-off after user milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/tencent?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tencent Holdings<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest video gaming company by revenue, is intensifying its international expansion as its flagship studio reports a record number of overseas players and prepares to launch a new title based on its <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/honour-kings?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">flagship game, Honour of Kings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">TiMi Studio Group \u2013 developer of Honour of Kings, Call of Duty: Mobile, and Delta Force \u2013 has reached 100 million monthly active users outside mainland China, a milestone that took the 17-year-old studio by surprise, according to Huang Shuo, TiMi\u2019s global publishing director, in a recent interview with the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">This marks the first time TiMi has disclosed its overseas user numbers. As a key revenue driver for Tencent\u2019s extensive gaming operations, the studio is doubling down on global expansion with the coming multiplayer adventure action role-playing game (RPG), Honour of Kings: World.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Video gaming is a key revenue source for China\u2019s most valuable tech conglomerate, which is aiming to boost overseas gaming sales as the domestic market begins to plateau.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Tencent\u2019s latest financial results showed that its international game revenue surged 35 per cent in the second quarter from a year earlier, while domestic game revenue rose 17 per cent during the same period.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"TiMi Studio is one of Tencent\u2019s key revenue drivers. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/d5757eb7-2ccb-4cb1-9ec2-f338f7852e65_6024e473.jpg\" title=\"TiMi Studio is one of Tencent\u2019s key revenue drivers. Photo: Handout\"\/>TiMi Studio is one of Tencent\u2019s key revenue drivers. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In recent years, Beijing has softened its regulatory stance on video games. While China enforces strict licensing and limits game time for players under 18 to three hours per week, authorities increasingly view local games as symbols of the country\u2019s soft power, especially following the success of Black Myth: Wukong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tencent Holdings, the world\u2019s largest video gaming company by revenue, is intensifying its international expansion as its flagship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1793,9896,381,10220,18,6373,10217,10219,10222,19,17,386,10216,2428,82,1475,10218,10221,10215],"class_list":{"0":"post-10540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-beijing","9":"tag-black-myth-wukong","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-delta-force","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-gamescom","14":"tag-honor-of-kings","15":"tag-honor-of-kings-world","16":"tag-huang-shuo","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-mobile-gaming","21":"tag-south-korea","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-tencent","24":"tag-timi-studio","25":"tag-timi-studio-group","26":"tag-video-gaming"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}