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News Release
April 30, 2015
For Immediate Release
Notice on the Decision to Launch “Logres of Swords and Sorcery:
Goddess of Ancient” in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau
Tokyo, Japan̶Aiming Incorporated (TOKYO: 3911) and Marvelous Incorporated (TOKYO:
7844) announce the decision to launch “Logres of Swords and Sorcery: Goddess of Ancient”, their
co-developed MMORPG for the smartphone through Garena Online Private Limited on the
Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau markets scheduled for release in 2015.
“Logres of Swords and Sorcery: Goddess of Ancient”, a light and easy MMORPG designed with
play sessions lasting only a few minutes, started its service in Japan on December 2013. Gaining
favorable top rankings in both Google Play and the App Store, a growing userbase, and a steady
increase in revenue since its Japan launch, “Logres of Swords and Sorcery: Goddess of Ancient”
achieved over six million downloads in April 2015.
Taking into account its positive performance in Japan, “Logres of Swords and Sorcery: Goddess
of Ancient” will make its first step overseas in the Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau markets
through a licensing agreement with Garena Online Private Limited (operated by Garena Taiwan
Co., Ltd), the biggest online game company in Southeast Asia.
Headquartered in Singapore, Garena Online Private Limited has offices in Taiwan, Malaysia,
Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia. Garena services "BeeTalk", a popular chat application in
Southeast Asia, and other communication tools on their platform business. Leveraging these
competencies and through partnerships with leading global game developers, Garena as a game
publisher, also services PC online games namely "League of Legends" (developed by Riot Games),
and "FIFA Online 3" (developed by EA Sports) in Southeast Asia garnering over 17 million active
monthly PC users on its platform. Garena Taiwan launched the smartphone game“雷霆戰機”
(developed by Sunmosh Corporation) in November 2014; “雷霆戰機”reached and stayed within
the top 10 positions in the Top Grossing ranking on the Taiwanese application market from
January to March 2015, acquiring over 11 million active mobile users, a demonstration of the
strong publishing capabilities of Garena.
<Game Launch Overview>
■Traditional Chinese Title: 劍與魔法王國遠古的女神
■Genre: MMORPG
■Start of Service: Within 2015 (Tentative)
■Territories: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau
■Device OS: Android 4.0 and above・iOS 7.0 and above
■Service Provider: Garena Online Private Limited
■Operated By: Garena Taiwan Co., Ltd.（台湾競舞娯樂有限公司）
■Copyright: ©Marvelous Inc. Aiming Inc.
News Release
For further information please contact:
Aiming Inc. Business Management Group TEL：03-5333-8424 E-mail：[email protected]