Malaysia at GDC 2016 – Interview with MDeC’s Hasnul Hadi Samsudin
A trade mission of several top companies in the Malaysian games industry are making the trip from Kuala Lumpur to participate in the Games Developers Conference (GDC) this week. InsideGamesAsia.biz had the chance...
Axial Brain Launched Tap Alice
The Singapore based indie developer studio Axial Brain, maker of Monster Treasure Adventure, has launched its new game Tap Alice. Tap Alice is a casual puzzle game and the first title...
iCandy Is Set To Be The First Mobile Games Company To IPO From Southeast...
Malaysia-headquartered mobile games studio iCandy Interactive Limited, en route to listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in two weeks, has completed the capital raising for it initial public offering (IPO). The...
Tencent: 33 Percent Increase In Online Game Revenue In 4Q / 2015
China's Tencent Holding witnessed a huge 45 percent revenue increase in 4Q, surpassing the estimates of analyst by 10 percent. In the same vein, it also reported missed income in terms of...
MOL Partners With Sony Computer Entertainment For Southeast Asia
MOL AccessPortal (MOL), the operating company of MOL Global (MOLG), has entered into a partnership with Sony’s division which operates PlayStation® business in Asia, to provide MOLPoints as a payment option...
Chinese Youzu acquires German Bigpoint
Chinese games company Youzu plans to buy German Bigpoint GmbH for up to 80 million Euros ($89.68 million) according to reports at Youzu and Reuters.
Established in 2009, Youzu Interactive is a global entertainment...
Tokyo VR Startups Launched Incubation Fund Program With Industry Leading Virtual Reality Mentors
Tokyo VR Startups (TVS) has launched an incubation program focused on the Japanese virtual reality (VR) market. In this program, Japan-based startup companies will be invited to develop prototypes of VR...
Silicon Studio And Mistwalker Announced Co-Development
Japanese Silicon Studio (Bravely Default developer ) is teaming up with Lost Odyssey creator Mistwalker to make a new game according to a press release from Silicon Studios. The game’s title, content and...
Chinese Investors Bring The Cash, Japanese Developers Supply The Fun
Japan's smartphone game industry, now estimated to be worth around 700 billion yen ($5.72 billion), is showing signs of maturing. At the same time, the cost of developing games has been...
China’s Cheetah Mobile Plans Major Silicon Valley Presence
Cheetah Mobile Inc. named Charles Fan as its new Chief Technology Officer. Charles will lead the global R&D activities for the company. Based out of Silicon Valley, Charles will also lead...
6 Gaming Trends To Watch For In 2016
Fallout Shelter generated $5.1 million for Bethesda in its first two weeks. Activision Blizzard bought King Digital for $5.9 billion and mobile games developer China Mobile Games and Entertainment Group merged...
WeChat And Its African Ventures
China's 1.3 billion-strong market is just the beginning for the world's fifth largest Internet company, Tencent. The tech giant's best-known social network, WeChat, is fast gaining traction in Africa, and mobile banking is...
Asia-Based Fifth Journey’s Strategic Partnerships With Hollywood Companies
Hong Kong-based mobile entertainment company Fifth Journey has signed a strategic partnerships to develop mobile games, interactive entertainment and virtual reality experiences with Universal Pictures, Lionsgate and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM). The partnerships...
360 Games Launched SUPER360° Strategy To Help Game Developers Enter Chinese Market
360 Games, one of the leading Chinese game platforms and publisher, announced that it has launched a series of innovative initiatives to attract global game developers to China. The initiatives include the...
South Korea’s Games Companies Tumble Amid Tougher Regulations
The number of Korea's gaming companies more than halved in 2014 from five years earlier due to a series of intensified governmental regulations, including a ban on minors' access to online...
Youzu Interactive, Buyer of Bigpoint, to Continue Exploring Chinese Game Market
The Shanghai-based game company Youzu Interactive, that has gained wide attention from industry insiders both in China and worldwide since the announcement of its full acquisition of the German game developer...
Nintendo President Reveals 2016 Plans
Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima recently talked about his plans for Nintendo for the year 2016 in the Japanese news paper Mainichi Shimbun.
First up, he stated that he wants to surprise Nintendo...
Chinese Mobvista Acquired US Based User Advertising Company NativeX
The 15-year-old mobile advertising company NativeX has been sold to Mobvista, one of China's mobile advertising networks, for $25 million. NativeX will continue to be based in Sartell (USA) and led by CEO...
Capcom’s Financial Results 2015
Capcom has published positive financial results for the nine-month period between April 1 and December 31, 2015, with net revenue increasing by 19.3 percent to ¥57 billion during the year. The publisher...
Bandai Namco Opening VR Experience Area In Tokyo
Bandai Namco will open a virtual reality experience area called “VR Zone: Project i Can” in Tokyo April 15 until mid-October, Bandai Namco announced.
The VR Zone will act as a virtual...
