Nexon To Diversify Mobile Portfolio For Global Market
Nexon pledged to continue last year's growth in the mobile games sector by focusing on the global market, publishing and the use of popular game intellectual property according to a report...
Garena Raises USD 170 Million in Series D Funding Round
Southeast Asia’s largest internet and mobile platform company, Garena Interactive, announced the successful closing of its USD 170 million Series D funding round. The round was led by Khazanah Nasional Berhad (“Khazanah”),...
Message Service Line To Enter Mobile Carrier Business In Japan
Line Corp., which offers a popular mobile message and online voice-call service, is entering the mobile carrier business in Japan, promising to underprice competition as it grows its platform for news,...
NHN Etertainment Eyes Facebook Patent War
Korean online game developers have often fallen prey to patent trolling. U.S. 3-D content firm Worlds.com filed a lawsuit against Korean game developer NC Soft in 2008, claiming the latter violated the...
Nintendo Of Korea Lays Of 80% Off Its Staff
Nintendo of Korea has laid off nearly 80% of the its 60 member team and has plans to relocate sometime soon according to the Korean website INVEN.
The state of Korea’s gaming...
Netmarble To Seek IPO On Local Main Bourse
Netmarble Games, South Korea's No. 1 mobile game developer and publisher, is expected to seek listing on the country's main bourse instead of on the tech-heavy KOSDAQ or overseas, sources said...
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...
Animoca Brands Signs Agreement with Tencent For Groove Planet
Animoca Brands Corporation Limited announced it has entered into an agreement with Tencent to distribute in China one of the company’s mobile games across Tencent’s Android versions of Weixin and Mobile QQ platforms,...
Forgame Announces FY2015 Annual Results
Forgame a leading developer and publisher of mobile games and webgames in China, announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The Group continues to gain traction in...
Mobile Gaming Market In Asia Emerging With Social Games
As smartphone penetration continues to skyrocket, social casino gaming on mobile devices is a growing market with huge potential although competition is fierce, Jamison Selby, Vice President of Games at b...
Jagex Bought By China’s Shandong Hongda
Chinese iron ore mining company Shandong Hongda has fully acquired for $300 million Jagex Ltd, the largest independent games developer and publisher in the United Kingdom. Shandong is a listed ferrous metal...
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...
Growing Popularity Of Blade & Soul Mobile Game In China
South Korea’s leading online game developer NC Soft is enjoying an upswing in its share price on robust sales of mobile games in China that propelling the company`s overall growth according to...
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...
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...
PlayStation Virtual Reality Gear To Launch In October
Sony plans to make virtual reality mainstream with the October release of PlayStation VR headgear priced at $399. “Virtual reality represents a new frontier for gaming, one that will forever change the...
Tencent bought the rights to more than 300 Japanese anime franchises
Tencent bought the rights to more than 300 Japanese anime franchises and cultivated others at home with a plan to parlay them into multimedia juggernauts according to a report at Chicago...
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...
Kunlun Tech Invests To Form AI Joint Venture
Chinese online PC and mobile game developer and operator Kunlun Technology recently announced that it will invest USD 3 million to establish a joint venture named Kunlun AI (Kunlun Artificial Intelligence...
Universal Studios Japan To Host Nintendo Attraction
A section created in collaboration with Nintendo at Osaka’s Universal Studios theme park is to open in time for the 2020 Olympic Games. The Nintendo-themed attraction is intended to at Universal Studios Japan...
