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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 Esports 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.
In addition to providing an esports playground for popular classics such as DotA and Age of Empire, 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.
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Company Coverage
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Garena Free Fire is set to soon begin the previously teased crossover with legendary automobile company Automobili Lamborghini
Black Clover M: Rise of the Wizard King, an RPG adaptation of the popular anime series, launches for iOS and Android
Black Clover M: Rise of the Wizard King announces November 30th release date
Free Fire: Garena launches the return of fan-favourite map Purgatory, bringing close quarters combat to all game modes
Garena Free Fire set to launch its 6th anniversary celebration within the coming days, featuring new modes, cosmetics, and more
Black Clover M: Rise of the Wizard King shows off the fan favourite character Gordon Agrippa in the latest teaser trailer
Top Stories
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Events
Games Mental Health Summit 2024 | Europe | Jun 3rd |
Dev Play Conference 2024 | Europe | Jun 3rd |
Gotland Game Conference 2024 | Nordic | Jun 3rd |
Tribeca Games Festival 2024 | North America | Jun 5th |
Guerrilla Collective 2024 | North America | Jun 6th |
Angles 24 Freeplay Conference | Australasia | Jun 6th |
Israel Mobile Summit 2024 | Middle East | Jun 6th |
PitchYaGame Live 2024 | Jun 7th |