TiMi Studio Group (Chinese: 天美工作室群; pinyin: Tiānměi Gōngzuò Shìqún), a subsidiary of Tencent Games, is a video game development studio group headquartered in Shenzhen, China and offices in Singapore, Montréal, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chengdu, and Shanghai.
[2] Following Speed Drifters, the studio released its own massive multiplayer online RPG (MMORPG) titled The Legend of Dragon[c] in 2010 and first-person shooter (FPS) Assault Fire in 2012.
[19][20] On 27 June 2020, the studio group and SNK announced a new unnamed mobile game, Code: J, for the classic arcade franchise Metal Slug.
[21] In November 2020, the studio group announced that Honor of Kings set a record of 100 million average daily active users worldwide.
[27] Bob Holtzman, General Communications Manager, shared on the 13th of August 2021 an open letter on the group's website apologising about the interactions, and clarifying that internal review have begun to learn from the situation.
The five versus five video game in the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre will adapt on areas where TiMi J6 Studio's Arena of Valor have a shared eSports with in Honor of Kings World Championship (KCC), under TiMi eSports, but did not reach the expected player base.
[33] Honor of Kings was launched worldwide on June 20, 2024, following pre-releases in Brazil and Turkey as well as countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[34][35] In November 2024, it was reported that eSports General Manager of TiMi L1 Studio, Zhang Yijia, was forced to resign from his position due to corruption affairs.