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Announced in April 2026, the first-ever overseas closed PC alpha test for Honor of Kings: World is open to select players in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
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Post-launch content plan for Honor of Kings: World, including the confirmed two-sub-version-per-season model, mobile launch within April 2026, and teased S0 additions.
Honor of Kings: World's launch-day hotfixes and the April 11, 2026 official Q&A response to player feedback about prologue pacing, controller bugs, and shader stutter.
Honor of Kings: World ran four major Chinese closed beta phases from late 2024 through February 2026 before its April 10, 2026 PC launch.
Honor of Kings: World's pre-registration campaign opened April 22, 2025 at Tencent SPARK 2025 and topped 3.8 million WeGame reservations before the April 10, 2026 PC launch.
Honor of Kings: World was revealed in October 2021 and launched on PC in mainland China on April 10, 2026 after roughly five years of development, multiple engine and scope changes, and a sequence of Chinese closed beta phases.
TiMi Studio Group's first-week production team report for Honor of Kings: World, published April 17, 2026 alongside the mobile launch.
The first post-launch hotfix for Honor of Kings: World, pushed on April 11, 2026 without downtime.
The Zhengming Test (争鸣测试) was Honor of Kings: World's first-ever paid commercial data-wipe beta. Recruitment ran February 10 to 23, 2026, pre-download opened March 4, and the test began March 5.
Tencent has announced a franchise-level collaboration with Hugo Award-winning author Liu Cixin. The specific integration into Honor of Kings: World has not been detailed publicly.
Honor of Kings: World was featured once at an Apple event: the September 10, 2024 iPhone 16 "It's Glowtime" reveal gaming demo segment, with an iPhone-16-tuned ultra graphics mode.
