Arena of Valor (Free) has been a strange game for us here at TouchArcade, as when it comes to the Chinese version, Tencent could likely take a page out of John Lennon’s playbook an accurately say that Honor of Kings is bigger than Jesus. (Honor of Kings being the Chinese iteration of Arena of Valor.) In the North American market, however, it seems Arena of Valor is still struggling to find its stride. Our community of hardcore iOS gamers love complex games like Arena of Valor, while the rest of North America focuses on far more casual titles. In a sense, it’s a fascinating cultural phenomenon as in the USA, it’s super common for gamers to have a current-generation console or two, and maybe even a gaming PC which likely serves their gaming needs fully- Even though they might have an iPhone X or high-end Android phone in their pocket. In Asia, if you’re gaming, you’re doing it on your smartphone, full stop. In a way, it feels like Tencent is playing the long game on the North America market, as it seems inevitable that gamers en masse will eventually come around to playing the kind of “full" game experiences that titles like Arena of Valor (or Honor of Kings) offer. We’re already seeing that with both PUBG (Free) and Fortnite (Free), two games that have been downloaded hundreds of millions of times, despite the insistence from hardcore console/PC gamers that a shooter is impossible to play on a touchscreen. (Remember, it was not ...