Tencent is bringing China’s biggest game to the rest of the world
With an estimated 200 million monthly players, Honor of Kings might just be the biggest game in the world — but there’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of it. The mobile strategy game, created by technology giant Tencent, was first launched in 2015, but its success has largely been concentrated in China. The company regularly cites the game as a big driver in its earnings reports, and it has proven so popular that Tencent implemented restrictions to keep kids under 12 from playing more than an hour a day. Urban legends about Honor of Kings abound: a recent slate of headlines suggested a player went blind because she couldn’t stop looking at her phone.
Now Tencent is trying to do what no Chinese game creator has done before: turn…
