We’re not going to lie, Arena of Valor has been all over the place this week. With the International Championship officially in full swing, it feels as Tencent’s attention has been on a successful worldwide event rather than keeping the casual playerbase in the know.
So much so, in fact, that the company has arguably alienated the Western audience who angrily took to the game’s Reddit page today to question the difficulty of finding any English-language coverage of the event. For those wondering, you can actually watch the event on YouTube.
But despite those frustrations, there’s still plenty more things to talk about in this week’s Arena of Valor news roundup; from big Black Friday deals to both sketchy and exciting Nintendo Switch version news. Arena of Valor Black Friday Sale"!

I’ll admit that I naively didn’t expect to be writing about Black Friday when talking about a mobile game like Arena of Valor. I should have known better. Any free-to-play needs to make money somehow, and when this relates to microtransactions, of course there’s going to be a sale on the biggest shopping day of the year.
For Arena of Valor, this isn’t a discount on Voucher purchases. Instead, there’s a fixed 40% discount on any and all heroes more than 4 months old on your given server (except DC heroes, of course). If you’ve been picking up newer heroes as they’ve released lately, this ?sale? could be a decent time to...