Honour of Kings is an enormous success for Tencent in China, so there was some hope that the simplified mobile MOBA would find success in the West particularly after its Switch launch last year. But a new report from Reuters suggests that Tencent has disbanded its European and American marketing teams for the Western version of the game, which still has a couple of hundred thousand daily active users in the regions.

In news that isn't creepy whatsoever, the developer of Honour of Kings -- known as Arena of Valor in Australia and New Zealand -- will use the game to test facial recognition technology to determine whether minors are spending too much time playing the mobile game.

A couple of weeks ago, I read a story filled with anonymous sources about some alleged turmoil between Riot Games and their Chinese parent, Tencent. While not speaking to the truth of anything printed, it did remind me that Arena of Valor was playable in Australia.

So I've been giving it a whirl for a little while, and as a result, I can fully understand if - or why - Riot might have been a bit ticked off.