The gaming company will provide the funding in an attempt to increase its Southeast Asian business as it sells its stake in Supercell to parent company SoftBank.

Japan-based gaming company GungHo Online Entertainment announced plans yesterday to invest about ¥30bn ($289m) in Southeast Asia-based game developers.

The funding will be made available through a new Singapore-based subsidiary, GungHo Online Entertainment Asia Pacific (GAP).

GungHo has signed a cooperation with SoftBank, a telecommunications company that is headquartered in Japan but which has several affiliate companies in Southeast Asia, in order to develop a structure for the new unit. SoftBank is also the majority shareholder in GungHo.

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