| Type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Online Game Linking Service |
| Website | http://www.garena.com/ |
Garena is a leading online game linking service provider. Its flagship online game platform, Garena+, is the biggest social platform in Southeast Asia and Taiwan, designed for online gamers to meet, chat and play games with each other. Garena also introduced latest premium online games on Garena+, including the award-winning League of Legends and other premium game titles, such as the first-person shooting game Black Shot and real-time strategy game Heroes of the Newearth.Some online game like Dota(Defence of the Ancient), Call of Duty, Left4Dead 2 also linked by this worldwide game linking service
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Forrest Li and his friends founded Garena in Singapore and within a year expanded Garena's presence to Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and the CIS. Most recently, Garena extended its reach to Thailand and Indonesia.
Garena started in 2007 as an e-sports community. Through the experience, the founders was fascinated with the rapid evolution of online games. Inspired to build a great gaming company together, Forrest and his friends incorporated Garena in 2009 with their passion to bring the online gaming experience to a higher level.
Garena launched its flagship online game platform in 2010. Known as Garena+, the social platform is designed for online gamers to meet, chat and play games with each other. On Garena+, gamers are able to effortlessly discover and play games while connecting with other gamers. Garena+ provides gamers with the ability to track gameplay, view the achievements of their buddies through a centralized buddy list, connect with clans and groups of similar interests on games, and voice chat with many gamers simultaneously through public or private channels. Within one year time, the monthly active users on Garena+ surpassed the 1 million mark.
Garena currently supports English, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Kazakh, Mongolian and Thai.
Garena Shell, which is the virtual currency on Garena, allows users to enjoy various premium features. These include premium membership, clan creation, avatar customizations, name changing and an "unban" card.
In addition to providing an esports playground for popular classics such as DotA and Age of Empires, Garena also introduced latest premium online games on Garena+, including the award-winning League of Legends and other premium game titles, such as the first-person shooting game Black Shot and real-time strategy game Heroes of Newerth.
In November 2011, Garena has confirmed its exclusive publishing rights for a highly-anticipated team-based shooter game, Firefall, in Southeast Asia and Taiwan.
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