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Agora.io takes on Discord with mobile in-game voice chat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Agora.io has created a platform for game developers to add real-time voice chat to their mobile games on iOS and Android. The new Agora Mobile Gaming (SDK) brings competition to a market paved by Discord, the Silicon Valley company that has amassed tens of millions of users for its Discord gaming voice chat platform.

The Santa Clara, California-based Agora.io has opened the SDK up to all developers, and it hopes to challenge Discord by targeting the Asian market for testing. (The company will focus on the global market). The company said integration is easy, requiring developers to insert only a couple of lines of code into their games to add live voice chat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.