Alliance of Valiant Arms
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.
| Alliance of Valiant Arms | |
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| Developer(s) | Neowiz Games Red Duck, Inc. |
| Engine | Upcoming: Unreal Engine 4 In-Service: Unreal Engine 3 |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows |
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| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
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(previously WarTown). 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.
The North American and European version of the game was shut down on June 29, 2018. 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. 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.