WCG Official Website

Worldwide Partner

http://www.samsung.com
Samsung Electronics has been sponsoring World Cyber Games since 2000. Samsung aims to utilize this e-sports platform to contribute to the gamer community and help fuel the development of a gaming industry. With gaming, Samsung is helping to break down cultural barriers and bring regions together, while supporting friendship and sportsmanship among youth around the world. Samsung believes there is a strong need to nurture a healthy and sound cyber world. Its support of the WCG aims to maximize the beneficial effects, and minimize any adverse effects of games by nurturing a sound and healthy games culture. Through the WCG, gamers, representing their countries can fully exercise their talent, skills and energy to attain self-esteem and self-actualization. Furthermore, the WCG strengthens Samsung's relationships with future customers of the cyber world. Participants and spectators of the WCG are mainly 'early adopters' of up-to-date technologies and are opinion leaders in the IT industry.

Samsung and Sports Sponsorship
Samsung has consistently sponsored and supported a broad range of sporting events for almost 20 years, including many world-class competitions such as the World Cyber Games, Olympic Games and the Asian Games. Sports sponsorship is a vital communication tool that helps people understand Samsung’s corporate philosophy and values. Its ability to unify people and encourage them to challenge themselves and find inspiration strongly echoes Samsung’s corporate philosophy, which seeks to improve human society through the application of digital technology. Sports also demonstrate the company’s commitment to responsible corporate citizenship and global friendship.

About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2009 consolidated sales of US$116.8 billion. Employing approximately 187,800 people in 185 offices in 65 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Imaging, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Semiconductor and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs

Official Partners

http://www.samsungmobile.com
Samsung's Mobile Communication Business offers the world’s widest range of mobile phones, multimedia players and related mobile products and solutions. Offering cutting edge full touch screen mobile phones and smart phones supporting all major operating systems, the business is a leader in digital convergence and has introduced many of the innovations in the mobile devices market today.

Also Check out Samsung Mobile Challenge at http://mobile.wcg.com/

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/monitors
In 1988 Samsung launched a new brand named SyncMaster. Since then it has been a leading monitor brand in the global display industry. The company is now working hard to advance the future of digital convergence. Today, Samsung is working to meet various needs of customers by providing not only home monitors, a necessity of life, but also network displays, displays for financial institutions and large-sized display solutions such as digital electronic bulletin boards, which offer broader business opportunities to B2B customers.

http://www.samsungimaging.com/
Samsung's Digital Imaging Business produces cameras and camcorders, with core competencies in optics and lens technologies. Samsung began developing film cameras in 1979 and has led the growth of the digital imaging market through its advanced technology and innovation ever since. The business is leading the industry in the introduction of HD camcorders with WiFi and DLNA capability, as well as the integration of 3D technologies into cameras and camcorders. Samsung also introduced the first camera with a 1.5” front LCD screen.

http://www.alienware.com/
Alienware, Dell's premiere high-performance PC gaming brand, offers unique and award-winning computers that are designed with state-of-the art components and deliver truly immersive gaming experiences. Alienware, one of the first PC gaming hardware manufacturers, remains committed to creating industry-leading systems in the high-performance gaming arena and offers a diverse selection of customizable, high-performance desktops, notebooks and gaming peripherals that attract a broad range of customers demanding world-class performance and design.

http://www.ttesports.com/
Thermaltake is a well known brand for gaming & DIY in Case, Cooler, and PSU for years. Due to the constant requests for keyboards and mice from gamers and end users, Thermaltake decided to create a series of gaming keyboards, mice, and headsets with the Tt eSPORTS brand. By using Tt eSPORTS, we want to extend our product lines into the gaming industry, and provide more "personalized gaming" gears to gamers and enthusiasts worldwide. With years of experience in gaming industry, Tt eSPORTS is committed to bring the most personalized and the highest quality weapons for the most competitive cyber battles. Designed by gamers for gamers.

http://www.koreanair.com/
Korean Air, with a fleet of 132 aircraft, is one of the world's leading airlines and operates almost 400 passenger flights per day to 117 cities in 39 countries. It helped launch StarCraft II by wrapping two Korean Air planes (B747-400, B737-900) with the image of terran hero Jim Raynor - the first time for an on-line game character appeared on any aircraft flying an international route. The airline also hosted the StarCraft final this year, filling its Seoul aircraft hangar with more than 12,000 StarCraft fans.

http://www.ign.com/
IGN Entertainment, a unit of News Corporation, is the leading Internet media and services provider focused on the video game and entertainment enthusiast markets. Collectively, IGN's properties reached more than 37.8 million unique users worldwide June 2010, according to Internet audience measurement firm comScore Media Metrix. IGN's network of video game-related properties (IGN.com, GameSpy, FilePlanet, TeamXbox, Direct2Drive and others) is one of the Web's leading video game information destinations. IGN also owns the leading men's lifestyle website AskMen.com and provides technology for online game play in video games. IGN is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, with offices across North America, Europe and Australia.

http://riotgames.com/
Riot Games is a direct-to-consumer video game developer and publisher of premium, competitive online games. Riot Games, based in Los Angeles, is funded through venture capital firms Benchmark Capital and Firstmark Capital and China’s largest online services corporation, Tencent. The company was established in 2006 and has quickly become a leading global developer and publisher of premium free-to-play online video games for hardcore gamers, launching their debut title, League of Legends, in October 2009. To date, more than four million gamers play League of Legends and log more than 20 million hours of playtime each month.

Product Partners

http://www.samsungssd.com/
Samsung's Semiconductor Business designs and manufactures memory and System Large Scale Integration (LSI) semiconductor solutions and storage devices. Leading products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM), static random access memory (SRAM), NAND flash memory, Solid State Drives (SSDs), display driver IC (DDI), CMOS image sensors (CIS), mobile application processors (AP), smart card IC, media player SoC and ultra-compact, high-capacity external hard drives.

http://americanguruclothing.com/
American Guru is an up and coming clothing line in the gaming world that represents the new age of gamers. We decided to add style to the world of gaming through a variety of apparel prints, colors, textures with trendy cutting-edge designs. We are the first mainstream gamer clothing line known to date to focus on the 21st century gamer. We are what "Hurley" is to surfers, what "Tap Out" is to fighters and what snow is to mountain tops…we are "American Guru" and we are here to represent the identity of gamers worldwide.

http://www.powercolor.com
TUL has dedicated its brand and services in offering the ultimate total-solutions of technologies. As the leading supplier of AMD graphics cards under the PowerColor brand, we offer award-winning products based on our technology leading components, quality design and superb engineering. TUL employs more than 150 talents worldwide, with offices in China, Europe, Russia and USA to support over 300 channel partners and distributors in 50 plus countries. For further information, visit: http://www.tul.com.tw/global/

http://www.gunnars.com
GUNNAR Optiks® is a technology company that seeks to enhance the abilities of the human visual system through revolutionary innovations. GUNNAR is the first optical manufacturer to combine precision, technology and style into a line of digital performance eyewear. GUNNAR digital performance eyewear with i-AMP™ lens technology is specifically built to give even the most demanding computer user an immediate and noticeable visual advantage in the short term, and provide superior optical performance in the long term.

http://www.astrogaming.com/
Astro Gaming creates premium video gaming equipment for pro gamers, leagues and their lifestyles.
Spun-off from design powerhouse Astro Studios, who felt it was the perfect time to expand their design brand into a line of gamer centric "tech-life" products, supporting this rapidly growing community. Our inaugural product line is centered around the critically acclaimed Astro A40 Audio System. "Our company lives at the epicenter of technology, lifestyle and design" claims Astro founder, Brett Lovelady. "For years we've been involved in the design of many forms of consumer electronics, particularly in the video gaming arena. And now that video gaming has become a leading form of entertainment, with "gaming lifestyle" quickly taking root, we decided to leverage our experience and give people an authentic gaming brand to rally around at the heart of this culture. Our products are specifically designed for the underserved hardcore gaming professionals and our overarching commitment is to improve the sport of video gaming.

Media Partner