NVIDIA recently announced that there are now over 250 GeForce-certified iCafes in operation across Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam. In 2018, NVIDIA plans to have over 500 iCafes in operation.
The GeForce certification was launched two years ago to help iCafe owners deliver top-notch gaming experience to their customers. GeForce certified iCafes' gaming clients are equipped with GeForce GTX GPUs that enable better graphics quality and smoother gaming performance compared to other non-GeForce certified iCafes.
The long wait is over, GEXT has officially started the qualifying rounds last October 15-16, 2016 in TNC Intramuros, IPlay CyberSquare and TNC Bacolod. Congratulations to the GEXT Café Champions: Action Arena (TNC Intramuros), Team Tamyon (IPlay CyberSquare), Vinggo.net (TNC Bacolod).
NVIDIA today kicked off the inaugural GeForce eSports Xtreme Tournament (GEXT) in Vietnam.
More than 100 gamers will be battling for supremacy on Defense of the Ancients 2 (DOTA 2), where two five-player teams fight to destroy the other’s Ancient building located within the opposing stronghold. Their reward: PHP 255,000.00 in prize money.
The massive eSports industry is valued at US$892mil in 2016 has been attracting investors for the past 3 years. Check out this article on 4 reasons why you should start paying attention to eSports as it makes its way to our Southeast Asian shores.
TheNet.Com (TNC) is the biggest iCafe chain in the Philippines with more than 89 franchises nationwide. In this interview with TNC's owner, Mr Eric Redulfin, he shares more about the business' humble beginnings, tips on running an iCafe business and how partnership with NVIDIA has helped grow the business by 50%.
Watch the interview here.