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Garena
Garena is a Singaporean game developer and publisher of free online games. It is the digital entertainment arm of parent company Sea Ltd, which was formerly named Garena. The company distributes game titles on Garena+ in various countries across Southeast Asia and Taiwan, including the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) games ''League of Legends'' and ''Heroes of Newerth'', the online football (soccer) game ''FIFA Online 3'', the first-person shooter game ''Point Blank'', the mobile MOBA game ''Arena of Valor'' and the mobile racing game '' Speed Drifters''. In 2017, it released ''Garena Free Fire'', which had over 150 million daily active users globally as of May 2021. History Game developments In November 2011, Garena announced its publishing rights for the team-based shooter game, ''Firefall'', in Southeast Asia and Taiwan. In December 2011, Garena announced their collaboration with online games developer, Changyou, to publish and operate the popular 3D martial ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garena Free Fire
''Garena Free Fire'', also known as ''Free Fire (FF)'', is a Battle Royale game developed and published by Garena for Android and iOS. It became the most downloaded mobile game globally in 2019. , ''Free Fire'' had surpassed 150 million daily active users. ''Free Fire Max'', a graphically enhanced version of ''Free Fire'', was released globally on 28 September 2021. Gameplay ''Free Fire'' is played in third person perspective. As in other shooting games, the player can move their character using a joystick and shoot and throw items with the fire button. In-game characters can jump, crawl, and lie down. When on the battlefield, players can use a grenade called a "Gloo Wall" as a cover to avoid damage. Game modes Battle Royale mode lets a maximum of 52 players land on a random island without weapons. All of them have to survive by eliminating each other using weapons and accessories that are found in the buildings. Players have the option to play this mode solo, or in a te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Ltd
Sea Limited (Stylized as: sea) is a tech conglomerate headquartered in Singapore. Established in 2009 by Forrest Li, Sea was initially founded as Garena, a game development and publishing company known for its ''Free Fire'' title. The company rebranded itself under the present-day Sea brand in May 2017 after securing funding worth US$550 million, although the Garena brand was retained for its digital entertainment arm. Sea has over 67,000 employees, as of 2022. Sea currently functions as a holding company for Garena, SeaMoney, and Shopee. Since 2020, Sea is also the owner of Singapore Premier League football club Lion City Sailors FC, after Forrest Li acquired, privatised and renamed Home United. History On 9 September 2021, Sea was reportedly raising up to US$7.2 billion in an equity and convertible bond sale, which would make it Southeast Asia's largest fund raising. Sea said it planned to use the cash for strategic investments and potential acquisitions. In March 2022, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arena Of Valor
''Arena of Valor'' (), formerly ''Strike of Kings'', is an international adaptation of ''Honor of Kings'' (), a multiplayer online battle arena developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Level Infinite for Android, iOS and Nintendo Switch for markets outside Mainland China. As of September 2018, the game has grossed over outside China. ''Arena of Valor'' was one of six Esports video games featured at the 2018 Asian Games, 2019 Southeast Asian Games, 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games, and 2021 SEA Games as part of the competitive sport. Arena of Valor was published in other regions by Garena, DeNA, Actoz SG and TiMi Studio Group. Gameplay ''Arena of Valor'' is a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game developed for mobile. The overall gameplay of ''Arena of Valor'' highly resembles ''League of Legends'', a MOBA game on PC developed and published by Riot Games, which is also a subsidiary of Tencent and sister company to TiMi. Players control characters, referr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garena Premier League
The Garena Premier League (GPL) was a professional ''League of Legends'' esports league with teams in Southeast Asia (included teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau before 2015 and Vietnam before 2018). It was founded in 2012. The opening event took place on May 5 with Riot's CEO Brandon Beck, VP of Gaming Dustin Beck, Taiwanese game designer Jeff Lin, and Nikasaur attending personally. It is the first regional professional esports competition of League of Legends in the world. In last season - 2018 Spring - the league consists of 5 teams who are the champions of 5 national leagues in Southeast Asia. The top four teams of group stage are advanced to the playoff, which are held in a best-of-5 single elimination system. In late 2014, Riot and Garena split teams from Taiwan, Macau, and Hong Kong into their own league, the LMS, which began play in Spring 2015. Following the changes, the GPL no longer sent teams directly to the League of Legends World Championship group stage. The GPL be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
League Of Legends Masters Series
The ''League of Legends'' Master Series (LMS) was a professional ''League of Legends'' league with teams from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau from 2015 to 2019. Eight teams competed over two seasons to qualify for the League of Legends World Championship. In September 2019, Riot announced that the LMS would merge with the ''League of Legends'' SEA Tour (LST) to create a new professional league for all Garena-affiliated regions except Vietnam, the Pacific Championship Series (PCS). History An announcement was made by Garena in October 2014 about plans of creating a new league to separate Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau from the rest of the Garena Premier League (GPL) of Southeast Asia. The league would have two seasons per year, spring and summer. The regional quota of two slots in the GPL and a single seed in the World Championship every year temporarily offset the dominance of the Taiwanese teams, but these conditions were not enough as the slots of the Southeast Asia in the Worl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA Online 3
''FIFA Online 3'' is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online football game which was announced on 13 August 2012 and entered the 1st closed beta on 20 September 2012 to 23 September of that same year in South Korea. On December 18, 2012, it was released in South Korea. FIFA Online 3 shut down its services on June 30, 2020. Development ''FIFA Online 3'' was originally developed for PC multi-player by Electronic Arts Seoul Studio based on the FIFA 11 engine. It has been launched through licensing agreements in South Korea (published by Nexon), Thailand (published by Garena), Indonesia (published by Garena), Vietnam (published by Garena), Singapore, Malaysia (published by Garena), and China (published by Tencent). Each version's interface and commentaries have been localised into the local language. On 25 July 2013 it was released into Open Beta in Thailand. FIFA Online 3 was released into open beta in Vietnam, on 11 September 2013. In Indonesia, it was released on 25 February ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei Assassins
J Team is a Taiwanese professional esports organization owned by JY Entertainment with players competing in ''League of Legends'' and ''StarCraft II''. Its ''League of Legends'' team competes in the Pacific Championship Series, the highest level of professional ''League of Legends'' in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, and Southeast Asia. J Team was founded in April 2016 by Jay Chou after he purchased the ''League of Legends'' Master Series spot of Taipei Assassins (TPA), which had won the Season 2 World Championship in 2012. ''League of Legends'' Origins as For The Win Support player "MiSTakE" met top laner "Stanley" while playing in the ''League of Legends'' ranked solo queue ladder. Shortly after connecting, their mutual friend "colalin" introduced them to "NeXAbc" and former Counter Logic Gaming player "Lilballz". Together with mid laner "A8000", they formed their team, For The Win (FTW), with MiSTakE as team captain. FTW's first event was Garena's G1 esports competition. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Point Blank (2008 Video Game)
''Point Blank'' (also known as ''Piercing Blow'') is a first-person shooter video game developed by the South Korean company Zepetto for Microsoft Windows. Gameplay ''Point Blank'' is a fast-paced online first-person shooter, and is similar in terms of gameplay to ''Counter-Strike''. It also features destructible and dynamic environments, as well as deeper character and skill customisation options. In ''Point Blank'', players join either the Free Rebels or CT-Force team (the Free Rebels are based on the Terrorists from ''Counter-Strike'', while CT-Force is based on the Counter-Terrorists). Each team attempts to complete their mission objective and/or eliminate the opposing team. Each round starts with the two teams spawning simultaneously, usually at opposite ends of the map from each other. A player can choose to play as one of four different default character models (Acid and Keen Eyes for CT-Force, and Red Bull and Tarantula for the Free Rebels). There are four purchasable d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GKART
''GKART'', also known as ''QQ Speed'' or ''Speed Drifters'', is a massively multiplayer online kart racing game developed by TiMi Studio Group and published by Tencent Games and Garena. The game was originally released in China as ''QQ Speed'' in 2010 and gained enormous popularity in China, with a record number of 2 million players online at the same time in 2011. The game was heavily inspired by Nintendo's ''Mario Kart'' franchise. Garena introduced ''GKART'' to 13 countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and the United States in 2011. ''GKART'' was selected into the World Cyber Games (WCG) at Singapore and China the same year. The game was shut down on 31 March 2012, before it was later re-released. The mobile game version was launched on 29 December 2017 as ''QQ Speed: Mobile'' in China, and on 16 January 2019 as ''Garena Speed Drifters'' for markets outside mainland China. , ''QQ Speed'' has players worldwide, including mobile players. The mobile version grosse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dauntless (video Game)
''Dauntless'' is a free-to-play action role-playing video game developed by Phoenix Labs and published and distributed by Epic Games. The game initially launched in beta in May 2018 for Microsoft Windows. An early access version launched on May 21, 2019 for PlayStation 4, and Xbox One, including full support for cross-platform play, and was fully released for those platforms on September 26, 2019. A Nintendo Switch version was released on December 10, 2019. Versions for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S were released on December 2, 2021. Gameplay ''Dauntless'' takes place in a fantasy setting, where a cataclysmic event has torn the world apart, releasing monstrous creatures known as Behemoths that prey on the surviving humans. Players take on the role of Slayers to take down Behemoths, collecting loot that they use to craft and upgrade weapons and equipment as to take down larger and more powerful Behemoths. While hunting, the game plays as a third-person action game; the player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahq E-Sports Club
ahq eSports Club ( zh, t=ahq電子競技俱樂部) is a Taiwanese professional esports Esports, short for electronic sports, is a form of competition using video games. Esports often takes the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams. Although orga ... organization with teams competing in ''League of Legends'', ''Arena of Valor'', ''A.V.A'', and ''Heroes of the Storm''. Their ''League of Legends'' team was formed in September 2012 and previously competed in the Pacific Championship Series, the successor to the League of Legends Masters Series, ''League of Legends'' Masters Series. After winning the 2015 LMS Summer Playoffs, AHQ qualified for the 2015 League of Legends World Championship, 2015 World Championship, where they placed fifth to eighth after losing to SK Telecom T1, SKT T1 in the quarterfinals. ''League of Legends'' History Formation In September 2012, after Corsair failed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neihu District
Neihu District is a district of Taipei City, Taiwan. Neihu means "inner lake." The older name originates from the Ketagalan word ''Tayour'' (transliterated by the Dutch as ''Cattajo''), meaning woman's head ornament. Many mountainous roads and paths, which are ideal for hiking, connect Neihu with the neighboring Shilin District and Yangmingshan National Park. The Tri-Service General Hospital, which is a teaching hospital of the National Defense Medical Center, is also in Neihu. The Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery borders Neihu. History During Japanese rule, Naiko Village () covered modern day Neihu in addition to Nangang. The village was under Shichisei District, Taihoku Prefecture. Economy Although it was a flood-prone region, Neihu has experienced huge growth with the construction of the Neihu Technology Park in 1995 and hypermarkets such as Costco, RT Mart, Carrefour, B&Q. The extension of the Taipei Metro to Neihu in the 1990s and early 2000s has also boosted residen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
