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Press release

January 27, 2016 GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.

GungHo releases new-generation smartphone board game "Summons Board" in Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao on Tuesday, January 26


GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc. ("GungHo") (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

(Representative Director, President and CEO: Kazuki Morishita) today announced that it has released the Traditional Chinese version of "Summons Board (name in Traditional Chinese: 召喚 圖板)" in Taiwan/Hong Kong/Macao on January 26, 2016. "Summons Board" is a new generation smartphone board game available online from GungHo on iOS/AndroidTM devices.


In recent times, the smartphone market has been attracting a wide range of users, not only in Japan but in Western and Asian countries as well, and the market is still expanding. Among these countries, survey results were published recently indicating that the smartphone game market in Taiwan, which continues to expand in recent years, were 10th for the iOS "App Store" and 4th for "Google Play" in terms of revenue rankings by country in 2015.（Source：AppAnnie investigation） Faced with this situation, we established the joint venture GungHo Gamania Co., Limited with

Gamania International Holdings Ltd. which the Gamania Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. of group company, in December 2015 with the aim of distributing and managing game titles, and through this, we have given enjoyment to users in regions covering a wide area, and have started the game service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao of the next-generation board game for Smartphone "Summons Board", which has achieved a total of more than 4 million downloads domestically in Japan.


Under the philosophy of "pursuing business operations to take on challenges and create new products," at GungHo we will strive to create high-quality game content that can be fully enjoyed by game users around the world.


Title:

Summons Board

(Name in Traditional Chinese: 召喚圖板)

Category:

Board game, role-playing game (RPG)

Compatible devices:

Devices compatible with iOS 6.0 and Android OS 4.1 version or above

Official website:

https://www.gungho-gamania.com/SB/

Product description


©GungHo Gamania Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. All rights reserved.

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