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...
Wang Sicong Leads USD 7.7 Million Series A Round In Gaming Peripherals Startup
Prometheus Capital (Pusi Capital), founded by the son of Asia's richest man Wang Jianlin, has reportedly led a RM B50 million (USD 7.7 million) series A round of investment in Taidu Technology, a...
Virtual Reality to Generate USD 2.3 Billion in Revenue This Year
US market research company IDC (International Data Corporation) has identified that virtual reality would generate $2.3 billion in revenue this year in the global market.
While VR has driven much of the recent hype,...
Vietnam Online Gaming Market – Outlook to 2019
The Vietnam e commerce market has enhanced at a tremendous growth rate, yet the size of online gaming market is still minute owing to the fact that a large part of...
UK Based Climax Studios Has Opened A New Studio In New Zealand
Climax Studios, the Portsmouth based UK developer and VR publisher, has opened a new studio in Auckland, New Zealand. The team consists of eight members all of whom are coders who...
Mobile Game Developer Youzu Plans To Partner An Electric Vehicle Maker
After China’s largest search-engine provider and the owner of the country’s fastest growing online sports company made separate forays into self-driving cars in China, a mobile games developer has just joined...
Malaysia’ s MDEC Sees High Investment Growth From MSC Companies
Despite global economic challenges, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), formerly known as Multimedia Development Corporation recorded significant growth in investments and export sales from MSC Malaysia companies in 2015. As the lead...
Chinese Actor Hu Ge Signs With NetEase As Celebrity Endorser Of Westward Journey
NetEase has signed Chinese actor and idol Hu Ge as a celebrity endorser for its smash hit game, Westward Journey.
Hu Ge has been a phenomenon in China since 2005 when he...
YouTube Gaming App Now Available In SE Asia
YouTube's gaming platform on which gamers connect with each other through videos and live streams is available in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and other countries via web and mobile app on iOS and...
Nazara Games co-invests with London Venture Partners & Supercell’s game lead into TrulySocial
India's premier mobile game developing and publishing company Nazara Games announced the investment in TrulySocial, a London-based mobile games studio. Other key gaming investors like London Venture Partners and Drussila Hollanda-Grönberg,...
Matomy Expands Into APAC With Offices in South Korea
Matomy Media Group opens its office in Seoul to meet the advertising needs of the world's 4th largest mobile gaming market. Seunghyun Ryan Kim, Matomy Korea General Manager, will lead the...
Ragnarok Online Sees its Apocalyptic World in Thailand Ended
Ragnarok Online, once very popular MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in Thailand will see its apocalyptic virtual world in Thailand ended on June 30, Asiasoft Corporation Plc announced.
Asiasoft said the...
Japanese Authorities Inspect Line Over Game Item
Japanese financial regulators have raided the offices of the messaging app operator Line Corp., the company said Wednesday, over what a person familiar with the matter said was the use of...
Keywords Studios Buys Studio In Manila
Keywords Studios announced recently it has acquired Philippines-based Ankama Pte Ltd for an undisclosed sum. Keywords said Ankama's sole asset is a business in Manila which provides services to support games made by...
Japanese Game Developer Valhalla Opens Studio In Vancouver
Japanese game developer Valhalla Game Studios, has moved its headquarters to Vancouver, Canada. Valhalla Games Studio was founded in Japan during the year of 2009 by heavyweight creatives Satoshi Kanematsu, and Tomonobu...
IB Media Lauches Insidegameslatam.biz – The First Latin America Games Industry Business Network
Singapore based International Business Media announced today it has launched insidegameslatam.biz (IGL.biz), the first B2B Games Industry Network for Latin America.
InsideGamesLatam.biz is the news and intelligence platform providing insight into Latin America’s...
Gametop: Record Number of Free Casual Games Released in the 1st Quarter of 2016
The first three months of 2016 have been record-breaking for the casual games publisher Gametop.com, which is well known for free games that are downloadable for Windows and Mac platforms. On...
Tencent Cloud Helps Chinese Enterprises Go Global
Tencent Cloud, the cloud business division of Tencent Holdings Limited, recently announced global support to provide cloud service to Chinese enterprises seeking overseas expansion.
Tencent Cloud has well-equipped data centers in North...
KongZhong’s Financials 2015
Chinese KongZhong Corporation announced the earnings results for Fiscal Year 2015 and Q4 last month. The company shares have rallied 30.82% in the past 52 weeks. On Jun 15, 2015, the shares...
Chinese Company Alibaba Announced USD 5.5 Million eSports Tournament
On Wednesday Alibaba announced they’re getting in on the action with the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG). WESG, which will be run by Alibaba subsidiary AliSports, will be a new Shanghai-based...
