On October 26, the official blog of King of Glory stated: The new game of King IP will be launched at 20:00 on October 30. Many players are speculating whether the new game will be "Codename: Departure" or "Codename: Breaking Dawn". Interested players should stay tuned.
From this point of view, the new game will get rid of the tower pushing strategy of real-time battles on small maps and enable a wider open map. In the pre-heating poster, you can see a door cracked, and you can see the alpine jungle outside. The style of the painting is a bit like "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" or "Genshin Impact".
As early as November last year, when "Honor of Kings" held its fifth anniversary event, officials revealed that two new mobile games based on the "Honor of Kings" IP, the names of which have not been announced yet, were codenamed "Dawn" and "Departure". Among them, "Codename: Breaking Dawn" is an action game produced by the Tianmei Studio Action Team. Players can use different heroes to start battles, which may test the players' operating skills. Coincidentally, a few days ago, Tencent Games launched a closed beta recruitment for a "new IP action game", which may be this game.
Although the life cycle of the Honor of Kings game has exceeded 6 years, it is still Tencent’s most important mobile game product. According to market research agency Sensor According to Tower data, Tencent’s Honor of Kings ranked second and “Peace Elite” ranked third among global popular mobile game revenues in September. However, the world's highest-grossing mobile game in the same month was won by "Genshin Impact" launched by a Shanghai-based game manufacturer.
According to a Sensor Tower research report, Honor of Kings has become the largest mobile game in the world. Since its launch in 2015, the total player consumption has exceeded 100 billion (approximately RMB 64.4 billion), becoming the first high-income mobile game in history. In the first half of the year alone, Honor of Kings brought revenue to Tencent of US$1.5 billion (approximately RMB 9.7 billion).
Tencent’s 2021 semi-annual report shows that Tencent’s revenue in the first half of 2021 was RMB 273.6 billion, an increase of 23% over the same period last year. Tencent's revenue from games in the first half of 2021 was 86.6 billion, accounting for 31.65% of total revenue, but Tencent did not list individual game data.
If calculated based on Sensor Tower data, the single game Honor of Kings accounted for 11.2% of Tencent’s total game revenue during the same period.
The above is the relevant information shared with you about the new game of Honor of Kings: King of IP that will be launched at 20:00 on October 30. Interested players should not miss it.
