Garena's Fere Fire has hit 80 million daily active users.

Team Liquid and Garena unveil Free Fire community tournament in the U.S.

Team Liquid and Garena have announced their first Free Fire community tournament in the U.S.

The move is part of a plan to make the mobile battle royale game Free Fire — which was the most downloaded mobile game in the world in 2019 and 2020, according to mobile insights firm App Annie — more popular in the U.S.

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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.