Nintendo Wii U/3DS hardware, game sales up
Nintendo has announced that Wii U sales in North America rose 340 per cent in November compared to the previous month, with the Wii U title Super Mario 3D World also...
Watch Dogs gets ACB R18+ rating
Ubisoft has confirmed that the publisher's action title Watch Dogs has been rated R18+ in Australia. The decision follows the addition of controversial new content after the game's initial review by...
Sony to release PS4 companion mobile app
Sony will release a PS4 companion app for iOS and Android devices, with availably to coincide with the console's global release schedule.
PlayStation App users will be able to use their mobile...
Chinese Linekong Turns To Global Market Opportunities And Invests USD 20 Million In US...
Chinese mobile gaming company Linekong Interactive announced that the company is investing USD 20 Million to expand its presence in the global mobile game market by establishing a western arm, Linekong...
China-ASEAN Mobile Internet Industry Alliance Hosted Its First Mobile Game Conference In Jakarta
Hundreds of game developers from China and Indonesia gathered at the Century Park Hotel, Jakarta yesterday, for an annual event to discuss the future of Indonesia’s gaming industry. The event was...
Asian and Malaysian Qualifier for ESL One Tournament at gamescom 2015
The Asian offline Qualifier for ESL One, Counter Strike: Global Offensive at gamescom 2015 will take place in July and will feature eight top teams from around the region with one slot is...
Korean Internet Giants Set Eye On Indonesia
Korean Internet companies are making forays into the Indonesia market, viewing the nation as the bridgehead in the global market on the grounds of the growing mobile market and less strict...
Perfect World’s Exhibit Receives Wide Acclaim at 2015 ChinaJoy
The 13th ChinaJoy was held in the Shanghai New International Expo Centre from July 30 to August 2, 2015. Perfect World has always been one of the major exhibitors at ChinaJoy,...
Square Enix Has Announced Its Lineup For Paris Games Week
Square Enix has announced its line-up for the upcoming Paris Games Week. Making appearances at the event will be Final Fantasy 15 and the follow-up to Nier, along with titles like the...
Meet GMGC´s Business Development Head, Teddy Florea
In November the Global Mobile Game Confederation (GMGC) host their next event in China (Chengdu), the Mobile Game Developers Conference. IGA.biz spoke with one of the main business driver behind GMGC,...
Samsung Gear VR Sees Strong Start In The US Market
Samsung Electronics’ new Gear VR virtual reality goggles are getting an upbeat response in the U.S. as the device has already sold out at some online retailers such as Amazon and...
DigiPen Sets Up Development And Publishing Studio In Singapore
Singapore's video game development scene got a boost when interactive media university DigiPen (Singapore) opened its development and publishing studio, DigiPen Game Studios, yesterday. The studio will work with developers to...
China Mobile Game Market Will Value RMB 9.67 Billion by 2015
Market Research Store releases a new market research report "Mobile Game Market 2012 in China: Industry Analysis, Trends, Size, Demand, Growth, and Forecast 2015" to add to its collection of research...
Busan Will Continue To Host G-Star
Busan will continue to host the G-Star game show for two more years till 2016. This means the southern port city has succeeded in solidifying its status as the destination for one...
David Ting about the Business of Netease
At E3 David Ting, North America Studio GM Netease, gave some insight about the company's success. Rather than build a market from scratch, NetEase looks for mature markets for its products, according to...
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...
Singapore’s Garena Invests In Vietnam’s Food Service Startup Foody
Vietnam based food service firm Foody Corporation, a portfolio company of Japan’s Cyberagent Ventures, announced that it has secured series B investment from Singapore consumer Internet company Garena. The funding from this...
Fresvii raised US$1.8 million to launch its cloud-based social engagement tool platform
Tokyo and Silicon Valley startup Fresvii has just raised US$4 million from Japan’s Nissay Capital, with US angel Guo Wei also pitching in. Nissay is a repeat investor, having first backed...
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...
Singapore’s MDA And IDA Will Be Restructured To Form IMDA
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) will be restructured into two new entities: The Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Government Technology Organisation...
