Tencent to launch hit game Valorant in China as it seeks a domestic successor to League Of Legends

Valorant was launched globally in June 2020, becoming an instant hit with over 14 million players as of July. Tencent says Valorant is its ‘most important game published this year’ and will be made available to players on the mainland from Wednesday. — SCMP

Tencent Holdings, the world’s largest video games publisher by revenue, is bringing popular shooting game Valorant developed by subsidiary Riot Games to mainland China, three years after its global debut as it seeks to bolster its domestic market position.

Riot Games, which became a subsidiary of Tencent in 2011, is also the developer of League of Legends, a game which underpinned Tencent’s rise as a global gaming power. Tencent said Valorant is its “most important game published this year” and will be made available to players on the mainland from Wednesday.