Persona 4 Golden honoured, ships over 700K units worldwide
Atlus has announced that the publisher's RPG Persona 4 Golden for Sony PlayStation Vita has surpassed 700,000 shipments worldwide, including both digital sales and retail outlet orders.
The Asia (English) edition...
Japanese Top Games 2015
Japanese game magazine Famitsu has published a list of the best selling games for 2015 in Japan. Not entirely unexpected either is that the majority of the games are from Nintendo and...
Exclusive Interview with the Maker of the Global Mobile Game Congress
Yesterday InsideGamesAsia.biz (IGA.biz) spoke to Maxim de Wit, one of the main drivers behind the Global Mobile Game Congress. Maxim gave an intensive insight about the preparation of the conference which...
EU/NA release for rebranded PS Vita TV
Sony has announced that PlayStation TV, a rebranded version of the PlayStation Vita TV device previously launched in Asia, will be released in Europe and North America.
The PlayStation TV unit, connected...
Fall JP/KR/SG launch for Xbox One
Microsoft has confirmed that Xbox One, the company's next-generation home gaming console, will roll-out in 26 countries including Korea, Japan and Singapore on 4 September.
According to Microsoft, a number Asian game...
YouTube is Bringing its Gaming App to Japan
TechinAsia reported that YouTube is bringing its gaming app to Japan. Japan will be one of the first markets globally, after the US and UK, to get a localized version of...
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...
2K China Office closed
Take-Two Interactive confirmed the closing its 2K China studio following the cancellation of Borderlands Online as GamesIndustry.biz reported. The Shanghai studio and offices were home to around 150 members of staff....
PS4 forecast as global market leader by 2016
Analyst firm IDC has released a report forecasting next-generation console sales over the next three years. The company expects Sony PlayStation 4 to lead worldwide with 51 million units sold by...
Ban on game consoles suspended in CN
The Chinese State Council has lifted a 13-year long ban on the sale and manufacture of games consoles by overseas companies in China.
According to a government statement, foreign-funded enterprises with production...
Tencent Looking To Buy Stake In Supercell
Tencent is discussing the purchase of SoftBank Group’s majority stake in Supercell in a deal that may value the Finnish game maker at USD $9 billion, higher than previously thought, according...
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...
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...
Tencent, Huawei And Lenovo Enter List Of World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies
In the Boston Consulting Group’s tenth annual global survey of the state of innovation, 11 companies from Asia, including three companies from China, are ranked in the list of 50 most...
Garena Sponsors Local Football In Singapore
Garena, the Singapore based gaming and e-commerce company, has inked a two-year deal with S.League club Young Lions that is worth up to S$4 million (USD 2.84 mill) according to a...
Vice Chairman of NetDragon Joins The Advisory Board Of Interactive Human Holograms Maker ARHT...
Today Canada based ARHT Media announced the appointment of the Vice Chairman of NetDragon Websoft, Dr. Simon Leung, to its advisory board.
Dr. Simon Leung, a seasoned technocrat and devout educator, has spearheaded...
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...
SCEJ Press Conference: New PlayStation Vita announced
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan announced a new version of the PS Vita at a press conference yesterday.
The PS Vita PCH-2000 will be 15 per cent lighter and 20 per cent thinner...
VIZ Media Europe Reveals Broadcasters And Release Dates For Yo-Kai Watch In Europe
Paris based VIZ Media Europe, the leader in Japanese Entertainment content in Europe, announced that the first season (26 episodes) of the animated TV series Yo-Kai Watch will debut on Cartoon...
GigaMedia Announces Second-Quarter 2015 Financial Results
For the second quarter of 2015, the sales revenues for Gigamedia were $2.7 million. The contribution made by the mobile games, the social casino games and the cloud computing business accounted...
