Tencent's global cloud services and innovative technological solutions have 
helped games to prosper in the global market, including Youzu's Game of 
Thrones: Winter is Coming (web version), U.LU's ARKA, and Zilong's Laplace M.

Resources and technical support: ensuring the quality of gaming experience

Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming (Web Version), as one of the most popular 
IPs, was extremely successful after its launch. User traffic caused great 
challenges for the stability of the main engine, IO, resource expansion and 
data storage. Tencent Cloud provides rich resources for server cabinet in North 
America and it expands capacity via hybrid cloud. Furthermore, Tencent hybrid 
cloud provides game servers with the capability of cloud scaling and adjusts 
CVM computing resources according to the game's business objectives and 
strategies. The usage of high-performance database enables functions such as 
automatic disaster tolerant, online upgrade, real-time backup. It also provides 
the deployment of scalable MySQL by minutes that allows flexible configuration 
on the demand. At the meantime, Tencent Cloud offers different BGP networks to 
satisfy the needs of users around the world and thus greatly improves the 
quality of network between end users and the serve.

Voice solutions: satisfying social needs of the game

With the rise of MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) games alongside social 
networking in gaming, ARKA greatly meets the social needs of gamers in South 
Korea. However, this also leads to higher demands on the designed scenarios and 
the voice input quality.

With accumulation in the field of voice solution for games, Tencent Cloud's 
Gaming Multimedia Engine (GME) provides features such as in-game voice chat, 
voice messaging, voice-to-text conversion and 3D positional voice chat which 
personalizes interactive experience with immersive content. Tencent Cloud 
thoroughly optimizes MMO scenarios and provides the solution supporting a wide 
range of challenging situations such as national warfare command with hundreds 
of thousands of users simultaneously on line, team voice chat for 20 players 
and voice messaging/voice-to-text conversion. With its wholistic features and 
low access threshold, Tencent enables developers to meet varieties of voice 
related needs only through accessing a single SDK and entering a few lines of 
code.

Security solutions: ensuring the safety of game operations

The game industry is the popular target of DDoS attacks, with a significant 
number of hackers and blackmail activities. Security issues constitute to be 
challenges for a long time.

Tencent offers full-scale Dayu Cloud Security Services for Laplace M's platform 
and server. With the condition of not affecting normal operations, it 
accurately intercepts attack from different sorts of networks and blocks 
traffic attacks by various of traffic suppression methods. In addition, Tencent 
Cloud also provides Game Escort Expert Services to assess the rationality and 
risk of the business structure together with Laplace M developers, in order to 
ensure the game's stable operation.

As one of the fastest growing and most widely distributed Chinese cloud service 
providers, Tencent's world-class global cloud infrastructure are currently 
available in 53 areas in 25 countries and regions globally, including the 
Silicon Valley in western United States, Frankfurt in Germany, Seoul in South 
Korea, Washington in eastern United States, Mumbai in India, Bangkok in 
Thailand, Moscow in Russia, Tokyo in Japan, etc. In addition, more than 1,300 
CDN acceleration nodes are deployed outside these areas. This provides strong 
resources and technical support for more and more game manufacturers to their 
global strategy.

SOURCE  Tencent Cloud