The 37th TCS Amsterdam Marathon was held on Oct 21st, 01:00 PM. Over the recent years, there has increasing attention directed to half-marathons. These races are held alongside with marathons with only half the mileage required, though equally in need of physical and mental tenacity. Ever more participants gather to join such a sport in the hopes of conquering 21 kilometers in one setting! This year, Bianca Alexiuc from GEU, challenged, and completed, the Amsterdam half-marathon! G-Voice is honored to celebrate Bianca’s spiritual journey and delight with all Gamanians on this special occasion.    ▲The event was held on

August 6, 2012   [Gama News] As part of beanfun! Summer Carnival, beanfun! National Open of first half year came to a perfect end on August 5th 2012. Players from all over Taiwan competed nearly 4 months and finally the champion team was born! The winners of regular match and sudden death match of CS online were AlphaForce and Pi-Li GoGoGo respectively. The winners of group speed match and individual speed match of 2.0 Crazy Racing Kartrider were Low-key club and oPTTo respectively. The intense competition carried on all the way to the final moment, everyone’s emotion was brought

A great discovery or invention often comes from the most trivial things in life. Sometimes you feel gloom and doom but when you take a look at that cute figurine on your office desk, it somehow help you clear out the bad mood!  Many things in life can inspire you or trigger emotions. There are tons of wonderfully trivial things in Gamania because Gamanians love sharing fresh and interesting things. Sometimes when we take a serious look at some of the things we are used to in Gamania, we discover new meanings or have new realization. Let’s see if

Each gamanian belongs to one of these teams. The properties for each team is fairly different, and before you start leveling up, you need to learn the focal points and required skills of each team. This issue of G!VOICE brings us each a mastermind of logistics, R&D, operations and creativity teams. They will evaluate each skill and pressure points as to come up with the best strategy plan for their members. What are their skills? How high are the combat rates? Let’s have a look now!     The office worker’s 12 must-have properties As the result of Gamanian leaders’

Famous Astronaut Armstrong said, “One small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.” Now the scene shifted to Angry Birds, the moment when it is about to be flung what would it say? Would it snicker? Would its feather fall?  Videos about Angry Birds never disappoint me, and they always make me laugh! The Space edition of Angry Birds was launched on March 22. About a month ago, its official website released this video and quickly created sensational talk around the space edition. The video was inspired from true humor, the good kind of creativity. The creative team

Have you had an experience of trying to survive under cross fires? Have you ever experienced escaping with your partners in a dire situation?  This June, members in customer service unit participated fierce guerilla warfare. In addition to getting to know each other more, this activity also made the team more unified through collaboration.  There were also delicious BBQ and exciting team activities! The team activities consisted of three games so everyone had a field day. The winners also received lovely little gifts!  The three games were ‘A mouthful of fruit burst’, ‘Love & hug’ and ‘Who’s the rat’s

G!VOICE conducted a special interview with Vivian He (right), GTW-CS and Emily Huang, GTW-CS as they shared the unspoken hard work in customer service.    Currently Gamania divides customer service sector into four divisions: staff who are responsible for answering customers’ calls, staff who deal with players’ online queries, staff who set up internal trainings for quality control of the customer service, and staff who assist in testing product quality and are part of QA team. Out of these four divisions, telephone customer service occupy the most people. Being front line customer service personnel is hard work. They need

    Ah Bin: “Courage is the process of escaping your comfort zone.”    Ah Bin: “Courage is the process of escaping your comfort zone.” The foundation’s activities encourage everyone to push their comfort zones and make them larger. They encourage people to have firm beliefs in their goals and strive for them. This process then enables them to take on even more challenges. Having courage means going to do things that you find extremely frightening, uncomfortable or just don’t like and also coming to terms with the possibility that you might fail. Sometimes the weight of a challenge,

    Source: http: //www. hidabroot. org The recent trend in modern web design emphasizes on simplicity yet with versatile and accessible content. Every site is trying to present its product in the most obvious manner possible, with over-exposure and overwhelming information. They are eventually buried among all the other hypertext messages, ending up with the visitor clicking off after a few brief glances. According to Sheena Iyengar’s “Jam Study”, it is suggested that when a being is offered too many options, the more difficult it becomes to make an actual choice. (View the Jam Study here)   It

According to renowned Taiwanese medium, Management Magazine, out of the top 10 corporate management tools, ‘Staff proposal’ is ranked at number 4. It is not difficult to see how important ‘staff proposal’ is for companies to enhance competitiveness. Not only did the data show us that, but well-known global companies had already carried out such initiative, such as American internet giant, Google, French bank magnate, Société Générale, Asian automobile tycoon, Toyota and Taiwanese real estate frontrunner, Sinyi Realty etc. These companies all have their unique internal proposal mechanisms. In the past, Gamania had held many internal creative proposal competitions,

Speaking of Gamania, both the soft/ hardware and the design of office are in accordance with humanity so that Gamanians can have good working emotions. The consistent improvement allows Gamanians think straight, feel comfortable, and have more creative innovations. Most people picture offices as dull concrete cubes. However Gamanians, in game industry, not only have humanitarian working environment but also the liberal atmosphere in the office. Vigorous Gamanians spend almost 1/3 day circling around in the office so all Gamanians are aware of where the goodies are and which corner has changed secretly. Let’s see what they’ve been seen!

I have recently come across a story that really blew me away: “Taiwan has broken 2 world records: a whopping 49 marathons races were held in 2012 (42.195 kilometers in total). falling in 4th place only behind the United States, the United States, and Japan. Taiwan hold the highest density of runners in an area based on the ratio of population and land. Wow! That is really something. Many friends around me have participated in some kind of marathon race. Some even already signed up for the 2013 Tokyo Marathon and are undergoing intensive training as we speak! The

The much anticipated Mabinogi: Heroes was announced to be launched in Taiwan this year, immediately causing a surge of discussion on the web. Embodied three exclusive features: real fight, real interaction and real game scene, Mabinogi: Heroes’s ultra-real visual presentation and real-life fighting experience hype up player’s anticipation. The official website will be officially opened on June 1st, players can step into the world of Mabinogi: Heroes and experience the shocking sensation of ‘realness’ in the virtual world!  Mabinogi: Heroes: give you the sensation of ‘real fights’! Ultra-Simulated Fights: ‘Feel’ the Thrill and Sensation! The much awaited Mabinogi: Heroes

  Year 2012 marks the 5th year of Taiwan eSports League and a proud year for Gama Bears! They won the highest honor, Professional Super Cup of TeSL for S&K: SF and KR. With the aid from the new joined force, Sen, they also won the champion for SCII and earned the highest honor, Mars Cup of TeSL.   The Mars Cup (for SCII) was a precious win!  SF joined force with KR and took the Professional Super Cup of TeSL in the 5th year.    Before winning these two champions in the 5th year, Gama Bears has had

For this special issue, we have invited the director of HR, Linus, to share his secrets to success. The following sections introduce Linus’ precious advice for all gamanians. Pay attention, and keep improving G!VOICE: As the result of Gamanian leaders’ votes on the must-have skills, “Professional Intel”, “Problem Solving” and “Social Innovation” stand out among the rest. How should we tackle these three areas, then? Linus: From the angle of professional intel, I believe that the desire to learn is a very important attitude one most embody. For example, being the director of the HR department, I need to

In the fierce competition in the capital market nowadays, business owners could only wish their shops are filled with customers and their products pre-sold way before official launch. Shrewd sales personnel wish they could see through customers’ minds and know what they are thinking so they could earn handsome amount of commission fees. In this day and age, everyone wants to know what the customers think, what they want and how to get them to pay. In this article, I’ll introduce a research method that could have an insight into consumers’ real demands—context inquiry.   Context inquiry is a

▲Lego master, Nathan Sawaya pieced up many seemingly petty Lego bricks into artworks full of life force! In 2008, Lego, a brand originated from Denmark had gone through half a century but still standing tall. It is the common interest and memory of many children and adults alike. Why is its charm so pervasive that still influences people even after 50+ years? Such charismatic toy possesses the features of numerous combination and diversity so that people could use their imagination and creativity and create many precious pieces and stories! Creative Lego: Intricate to the Ts Lego’s slogan has changed

A Role Play Task   As the marketing department in Gamania, we often alternate between two roles: when we face the business operation, we turn into professional Ad personnel, providing marketing strategy and corresponding effect according to the features of each game and the target player group; however when we face external advertising agency or production company, we act as a client of game company where we carefully examine the proposal and estimate prospective result. Switching characters between these two roles requires more than adjusting the attitudes but professional skill-set to deal with different tasks. Therefore, a real life

Summer is the peak season for game industry, Gamania will not be absent from the mobile game market. Presenting branding new mobile content, Gamania officially launched SubCat with enhanced visual quality. In addition, two new quests were added: East Sea Dragon Palace and Honey Strait. The new game targets cat-lovers, recreational players and iPad owners and seeks to attract spotlight with the hottest ‘screen-wipe’ method.   This time we did an unannounced interview with potential player, Grace from operator, to test the game effect of SubCat HD.   We installed SubCat HD to iPad and placed it on Grace’s

▲Spokesperson and Taiwanese celebrity, Jolin Tsai, representative from Korean developer (left) and COO of GTW, Vincent Chuang (right).  July 13th, 2012 [Gama News] Gamania’s annual masterpiece, Cyphers launched the official open beta test on July 31st 2012. Cyphers embodies the thrills of DOTA strategic appliance and exciting action games. Taiwan was announced as the first overseas launch location and was positively perceived by players, who expressed high anticipation for this game. Two game modes, point accumulation battle and player vs. computer, were added for the open beta on July 31st Open Beta. The ‘union system’ was also opened to