Alliance of Valiant Arms

Alliance of Valiant Arms
Alliance of Valiant Arms
Developer(s)Neowiz Games
Red Duck, Inc.
EngineUpcoming: Unreal Engine 4
In-Service: Unreal Engine 3
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows
Release
  • WW: August 23, 2022
  • KOR: 2007
  • NA: November 11, 2009
Genre(s)First-person shooter
Mode(s)Multiplayer

Alliance of Valiant Arms (abbreviated as A.V.A, Korean: 아바, romanized: Aba, 简体中文：《战地之王》, 繁體中文：《戰地之王》) is a free-to-play online first-person shooter video game, developed by now-defunct Red Duck, Inc. using Unreal Engine 3. Since then, Neowiz has taken over the development and publishing of the game after acquiring its intellectual property.

In North America and Europe, the game was published by En Masse Entertainment (2016-2018), Aeria Games (2012-2016), and ijji (2009-2012). It is hosted in the People's Republic of China by Tencent Games, and in Taiwan by Garena[1](previously WarTown[2]). In Japan and Korea the game is hosted by NEOWIZ (operator of Pmang).

On June 15, 2011, A.V.A became available for download through Steam.[3][4][5]

The North American and European version of the game was shut down on June 29, 2018.[6] Red Duck, Inc. attempted to self-publish a modified version of the game for these regions called Alliance of Valiant Arms: DOG TAG, launching open beta on May 2, 2019. AVA: Dog Tag was shut down on May 29, 2019.[7] The servers were also shut down for Taiwanese version on July 30, 2019 and September 25, 2019 for Chinese version.

The Steam service for the global version completed 2 days of Closed Beta Testing through Steam Playtest. This took place on November 26–28, 2021 KST. [8]

  1. ^ "AVA Taiwan". Retrieved March 24, 2017.
  2. ^ "戰谷宣布《A.V.A 戰地之王》20 日啟動壓力測試 帳號今起開放申請" [WarTown announced "Alliance of Valiant Arms" stress test starts on 20 October, account registration opens today]. 巴哈姆特 (Gamer.com.tw) (in Chinese). 16 October 2010. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  3. ^ "Free To Play Games Have Arrived on Steam". steampowered.com. 15 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  4. ^ "Free-to-Play Games Now Have a Home on Steam". 1up.com. 14 June 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-07-11. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  5. ^ "Valve announces Steam F2P support". EuroGamer.com. 14 June 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
  6. ^ "A.V.A. Alliance of Valiant Arms™ :: End of Mission". 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  7. ^ "AVA: DOG TAG". www.playava.com. Retrieved 2018-07-30.
  8. ^ Winter, Jason (22 October 2021). "Neowiz's Alliance Of Valiant Arms Playtest Kicks Off In Late November". MMOBomb. Retrieved 29 November 2021.