TiMi is opening a game studio in Seattle.

TiMi opens Seattle studio to make triple-A games

TiMi Studio Group has had huge hits in mobile games such as Call of Duty: Mobile and Honor of Kings. And now this Tencent division launching a new studio to make triple-A games dubbed TiMi Seattle.

The Shenzhen, China-based TiMi hired game dev veterans Scott Warner and Rosi Zagorcheva last year, and they have already built a team of 25 people. Their office will open later this year in Bellevue, Washington, a tech hub where Valve is based. The studio is still hiring, and it already has remote workers in Los Angeles.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.