Neverwinter: Strongholds – The Seventh Expansion For The Action MMORPG
Perfect World Entertainment Inc. and Cryptic Studios announced Neverwinter: Strongholds – the seventh expansion for the action MMORPG set in the Dungeons & Dragons’ Forgotten Realms universe from Wizards of the...
Chinese Games in Korea: A Glimpse into 37Games ‘s Success
The Korean game market is currently valued at 2.4 trillion South Korean Won (KRW). According to Metaps's latest research in 2015, 70% of the most popular games in Korea originated from...
Bandai Namco partners with payment system Oink
Bandai Namco has joined US-based payment processing platform Oink. The system is targeted to teens and their parents in North America.
“It has been an incredible year for the momentum of Oink...
Mobile Games In China Continue To Power MNC Media’s Revenue Growth
Strong demand for mobile games and social e-commerce in China has continued to propel Singapore based MNC Media Investment, a provider of media and entertainment content and services in key strategic...
Tencent Buying China Music Corp. – Creating Streaming Giant
China’s Tencent is understood to have acquired control of China Music Corporation. The company owns two of China’s leading music streaming businesses, Kugou Music and Kuwo Music.
A deal that values the...
China’s Gamers Aren’t Buying Many Consoles
A report from Joshua Brustein from Bloomberg shows the retail sales results of Sony and Microsofts console Business in China.
Now that China’s ban on retail sales of video-game consoles has been...
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...
China’s Internet user base reaches 591M
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced in a report this week that internet users in China grew to 591 million as of the end of June 2013, up 26.56...
Japan’s online games market grew by 101 per cent in 2012
The Japan Online Game Association (JOGA) recently released their annual survey of the online and mobile game market in Japan. According to the report, Japanese online game revenues totalled 142.09 billion...
Ubisoft Announces Plans for Next-Generation Theme Park in Malaysia
Have you ever played one of Ubisoft’s games and thought, “This is fun and all, but I’d really like to experience it as a theme park ride”? Good news! That wish...
Kaga Create No Longer In Business and Shut Down Business
Another Japanese game developer Kaga Create, publisher of games like Saki: The Nationals and Higurashi When They Cry Sui, shut its doors on the last day of last year, 2015, according to...
Sony to bring PlayStation to CN
Sony has announced a partnership with Shanghai Oriental Pearl Culture Development (OPCD) to launch the PlayStation platform in China.
SCE Shanghai will operate hardware and software divisions, with OPDC expected to direct...
Chinese Gaming Company NetDragon Acquires Ed-Tech Provider Promethean
Promethean World PLC, a U.K.-based business that made a name for itself selling interactive whiteboards in the United States and abroad, will be purchased by NetDragon Websoft Inc., a Chinese online-game...
Konami Announces Profit Growth
Konami may have been dealing with drama behind the scenes but that hasn't stopped the company showing an impressive year-on year profit increase of 159.9 per cent to ¥4,282 million in...
Tencent Uses Games to Beat China Slowdown
In China’s slowing economy, billionaire Ma Huateng is finding growth by supplying cheap entertainment to the masses. Smartphone games for the billion users of the WeChat and QQ messaging applications and...
PS4 hits 7M consoles sold worldwide
Sony has announced that PlayStation 4, the company’s next generation home gaming console, has sold over 7 million units worldwide since the console’s launch last year.
"The response from the global gaming...
Chinese ban on game consoles may be lifted
The decade-long ban on game consoles sales may be eased, according to sources in China's Ministry of Culture.
Due to fears of the potential harmful impact on young people, seven Chinese ministries...
MLG building esports arena near HK
Professional esports organisation Major League Gaming has partnered with Chinese Lai Fung Holdings and eSun Holdings to build a dedicated esports arena on Hengqin Island near Hong Kong. The 15,000-seat stadium...
Indie Prize Winners for the Casual Connect Asia Show have been Revealed
The judges of the Indie Prize Awards at Casual Connect Asia had a hard time choosing 86 participants out of over 200 submissions. “It’s not only about the games. It is...
Meet Alexander Fernandez, CEO of the Biggest Malaysian Game Studio
IGA.biz had the chance to talk to Alexander L. Fernandez, CEO of Malaysia' s biggest Game Studio Streamline Media Group. Alexander L. Fernandez is a dynamic entrepreneur in the media, entertainment...
