New opportunities, new experiences, and new services, HarmonyOS games lead the future

Aug 03 2025

【China, Shanghai, July 31, 2025】The 2025 China International Digital Entertainment Industry Conference (CDEC) Summit Forum was successfully held. Zhang Sijian, president of Huawei Terminal Cloud Service Interactive Media BU, said in his keynote speech "Technology Empowers Experience Innovation HarmonyOS Games Lead the Future" that as the number of HarmonyOS 5 terminals exceeds 10 million, the Hongmeng Operating System 5 has successfully passed the large-scale market test and the version experience is more mature. In the field of gaming, Huawei Game Center insists on technology empowerment, and continuously upgrades comprehensively from multiple dimensions such as experience innovation, developer services and incentive plans. It works with developers and partners to create new opportunities, new experiences and new services for Hongmeng Games, providing an important driving force for the high-quality development of the game industry.

More than 6,500 Hongmeng games have been launched, and game manufacturers are accelerating their layout in Hongmeng ecosystem

According to the "China Game Industry Report from January to June 2025", from January to June 2025, the actual sales revenue of the domestic game market was 168.00 billion yuan, an increase of 14.08% year-on-year, setting a new high. The actual sales revenue of China's self-developed games overseas market was US$9.501 billion, an increase of 11.07% year-on-year. China's game industry has undergone innovative transformation and has become the core camp of the global game industry. Benefiting from the popularization of mobile Internet and technological iteration, industry revenue has increased exponentially. As an important part of the digital creative industry, games have shown strong market vitality. Technology innovation and content integration have become the "dual engine" of industrial development. With its unique technical architecture, excellent and stable performance and open and inclusive ecological concept, Hongmeng Ecology has become an important force in promoting the high-quality development of the game industry.

As of July 2025, Huawei Game Center has launched more than 6,500 Hongmeng games, building a Hongmeng game ecosystem covering multiple terminals such as mobile phones, PCs, tablets, smart screens, and car computers. Among them, the Hongmeng version of Tencent TOP game such as "Glory of Kings" and "Peace Elite" has been launched; popular games such as "Operation Delta", "Call of Duty", "Dark Zone Breakthrough", "Light and Night Love" have been launched; the Hongmeng version of "Golden Shovel Battle" and "League of Legends Mobile Game" will also be launched. Many new games such as "Heroic Land", "Kuroko's Basketball", "Endless Winter", "Age of Stars", "Eternal Night: Resurrection" and other new games have selected the first launch of the Hongmeng version and achieved outstanding results. More than 500 game manufacturers have joined Hongmeng cooperation, and more and more game manufacturers are accelerating the adaptation of Hongmeng games. Hongmeng is becoming a must-have option for the game industry to achieve cross-platform ecological construction, technology upgrade and content innovation.

Hongmeng's underlying technology breakthrough, smooth, interconnected and intelligent Hongmeng game experience renewed

Innovative breakthroughs are achieved based on the new Hongmeng operating system, Ark Engine and full-scene interconnection architecture. Hongmeng empowers developers with technology, breaking through the experience boundaries of games from the three dimensions of smoothness, interconnection and intelligence, integrating technological innovation into every link of game experience design, and renewing the full-scene intelligent Hongmeng game experience.

Based on the deep integration of the soft and hard cloud ecosystem, Ark Engine has achieved comprehensive improvements in Hongmeng game performance, picture quality and loading speed through integration of end-cloud compilation, performance tuning and other technologies. Based on the deep optimization of the Ark Scheduling Engine and the Ark Graphics Engine, the performance of "Honor of Kings" has been significantly improved, with a 21% increase in chirality, bringing a more lasting, smoother and faster-responsive gaming experience.

The whole scene is the background color of Hongmeng. The distributed technology of the Hongmeng operating system combines terminal interconnection capabilities to generate innovative interactions such as "touch" and floating touch. The "Touch" function innovates the "black" scene of the game. With a light touch of "Rare Cute Chef", teaming up quickly in seconds to achieve rapid social ice breaking; the star flash floating touch technology solves the problem of hand-eye coordination between smart screen games, bringing a broader vision and greater operation space to game experiences such as "QQ Speed".

The powerful AI capabilities of the Hongmeng operating system are deeply integrated with Hongmeng games. Functions such as AI game scene perception, Xiaoyi game assistant and intelligent recommendation stimulate game creative breakthroughs and intelligent experience innovation. Through voice-controlled operation of "Three Kingdoms Kill", the AI model intends to recognize the game scene and converts it into operation commands, allowing players to free their hands and improve the freedom of the game.

The entire ecosystem empowers developers to jointly expand new opportunities in the game industry

As the game industry gradually transforms from the "scale expansion" model to the development stage of "value deepening", technological innovation pushes up the product quality limit, and the innovation of content experience better meets the diversified needs of the market and brings more room for value growth to the game industry. As a new model of IP value-added by the innovative integration of game and film and television content, Huawei Game Center provides an end-to-end one-stop service from "schedule design" to "distribution integration", tailoring high-quality content for game IP, promoting the multi-dimensional release of game IP value, and helping "good content" to achieve comprehensive IP breaking through the circle. Huawei Game Center and Caohua Interactive, the first film and game linkage short drama "Wild Mistake", adapted from the SLG game "Wild Mistake", has achieved over 200 million exposures in two weeks, and the total number of views exceeded 15 million on the entire network, which has comprehensively improved the activity and conversion of the game.

"2024 China Game Overseas Research Report" shows that the global game market size is1216.335 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.31%. The report pointed out that the pattern of mobile games going overseas has changed, and medium- and light games going overseas has become a new trend. Based on new opportunities to go overseas, in addition to mainstream markets, Huawei Game Center has worked with its partners to actively explore the incremental space of emerging markets such as Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa. With the years of accumulated diversified intermodal transport and empowerment experience overseas, it has launched an omni-channel in-depth intermodal transport model, based on the new local ecosystem, providing partners with integrated overseas solutions and bringing significant commercial improvements.

In addition, the domestic mini-game market revenue was 39.836 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 99.18%, and is still in a stage of rapid development. As the mini-game market shows a booming trend, Huawei Game Center and its partners work together to explore business opportunities in all aspects: based on HarmonyOS mini-game graphics rendering technology WebGE, it realizes 90-frame super smooth picture quality of 3D high-quality mini-games such as "Dawn Return" and "Thunder: Awakening". At the same time, it fully launched overseas to help developers seize the initiative overseas and win new growth space.

The prosperity of Hongmeng ecosystem cannot be separated from the in-depth participation of every developer and partner. As of June 2025, the number of registered developers in Huawei Developer Alliance has reached 8 million. In order to further stimulate the innovative vitality of game developers, the new Hongmeng game incentive plan for all scenarios, small games, large-scale transport and overseas travel is continuously upgraded, and developers are encouraged to innovate in combination with the characteristics of the Hongmeng system; based on commercial cooperation between intermodal, advertising and commercial promotion, a full-media traffic matrix is built to realize intelligent distribution of all scenarios, reaching hundreds of millions of game players.

With the joint support of users and partners, Hongmeng Ecology has ushered in a new starting point and demonstrated strong development potential. The milestone of HarmonyOS 5's million-dollar user is not only a highlight of the Hongmeng operating system, but also an important prelude to the upgrading of the technology industry. Huawei Game Center will work with developers and partners to create new opportunities, new experiences and new services for Hongmeng Games, and promote the further prosperity and development of the game industry!