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Report: TikTok owner ByteDance expected to name Yan Shou as head of games News Feb 18th, 2020

Report: TikTok owner ByteDance expected to name Yan Shou as head of games

Currently overseeing strategy and investment unit

Tencent's TiMi Studios discuss Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon partnership, and 2020 trends Interview Jan 16th, 2020

Tencent's TiMi Studios discuss Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon partnership, and 2020 trends

"It is not our first cooperation with Activision and won't be the last"

Mobile esports games earned $15.3 billion in 2018 News Aug 30th, 2019

Mobile esports games earned $15.3 billion in 2018

Over 51% of China’s domestic games market was grossed by mobile titles.

Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2 News Aug 14th, 2019

Honor of Kings, PUBG Mobile and Perfect World power Tencent's smartphone revenue to $3.2bn in Q2

Overall online games business grew eight per cent to $3.9bn

Tencent denies overseas marketing and sales team was disbanded over Arena of Valor woes Job News Jun 5th, 2019

Tencent denies overseas marketing and sales team was disbanded over Arena of Valor woes

But does not touch on whether it will continue to support the game in Western markets

Perfect World’s $100 million launch month dethrones Honor of Kings News Mar 28th, 2019

Perfect World’s $100 million launch month dethrones Honor of Kings

Tencent's newest MMO has been raking in $4.5 million in player spending every day since launch

Honor of Kings has made $4.5 billion since launching in October 2015 News Mar 15th, 2019

Honor of Kings has made $4.5 billion since launching in October 2015

295 million installs to date

Tencent’s Honor of Kings generated more than $1 billion in February alone News Mar 11th, 2019

Tencent’s Honor of Kings generated more than $1 billion in February alone

Version 2.0 sparks huge boost in earnings for the mobile MOBA

Tencent applies digital lock restriction for young Chinese players that requires parental consent to play games News Mar 1st, 2019

Tencent applies digital lock restriction for young Chinese players that requires parental consent to play games

Guardians need to unlock games for kids under the age of 12

Honor of Kings skips past $4 billion in lifetime revenue News Dec 17th, 2018

Honor of Kings skips past $4 billion in lifetime revenue

278 million downloads to date

DENA partners with Tencent to launch mutli-billion dollar hit Arena of Valor in Japan News Nov 7th, 2018

DENA partners with Tencent to launch mutli-billion dollar hit Arena of Valor in Japan

Will Japan prove a successful venture for the hit MOBA?

Arena of Valor 2018 International Championship sports a $600,000 prize pool News Oct 19th, 2018

Arena of Valor 2018 International Championship sports a $600,000 prize pool

Grand finals will take place in Thailand on December 15th to 16th

Tencent tests facial recognition to restrict gameplay time in Honor of Kings News Oct 2nd, 2018

Tencent tests facial recognition to restrict gameplay time in Honor of Kings

Chinese publisher wants to check identity and age of players

Tencent’s Honor of Kings rakes in over $3.5 billion in global revenue News Sep 18th, 2018

Tencent’s Honor of Kings rakes in over $3.5 billion in global revenue

China makes up 96 per cent of the total

From esports to Nintendo Switch: Tencent on its ambitions to grow Arena of Valor in the West Interview Sep 18th, 2018

From esports to Nintendo Switch: Tencent on its ambitions to grow Arena of Valor in the West

“The console space is an exciting one for us, and there really hasn’t been a big mobile game on the Switch device yet”

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