Former General Manager of Tencent Mergers & Acquisitions Appointed as Director Of Cheetah Mobile
Cheetah Mobile Inc. today announced the appointment of Mr. Zhaohui Jeffrey Li as a director of Cheetah Mobile and the resignation of Mr. Zhijian Peng as the director, effective immediately.
Mr. Zhaohui...
Dragon Nest Will Be Officially Released In Vietnam In First Quarter Of 2016
Vietnamese VGG Entertainment and Cherry Credits from Singapore announced the signing of co-operation agreement to publish the blockbuster Multiplayer Online Free-To-Play Action game: Dragon Nest, in Vietnam, slated to be released in the first...
BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT exhibits at gamescom 2015
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced its biggest gamescom presence to date at gamescom 2015, where the company will showcase more games than ever before on over 500 game stations. The world’s...
Toshiba to launch streaming-ready TV line
Japanese electronics firm Toshiba has partnered with Taiwanese streaming technology provider Ubitus to develop a line of smart televisions that support cloud-based gaming. The new models (L3400U, L5400U, L7400U) will launch...
COD championship finals for ANZ announced
Major League Gaming has confirmed this year's Call of Duty Championship for Australia and New Zealand. Online and LAN qualifiers are scheduled for February, and the ANZ COD Championship Final is...
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...
Record Attendance At ChinaJoy 2015
The annual ChinaJoy has expanded this year to 800 exhibitors showcasing over 3,500 products, with the organizers announced more than 273,000 visitors during the four-day event.
More than 273,000 people visited the ChinaJoy event...
Japan’s Game Market 2014 – Consoles Decline And Mobile Grows
New data from Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu, which tracks the country's game market, reveals that the country's game business has hit an all-time high: $9.6 billion dollars in 2014. Japan's...
Call For Entries For Gamefounders Accelerator Programme 2016
Given the success of the accelerator programme Cohort 2015, GameFounders have opened registrations for Cohort 2016. Game developers interested in the accelerator programme by GameFounders can now apply till 20th December...
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...
Winners Of The MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge 2015
The Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia (MDeC) announced eleven winners of the MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) 2015. The winners were awarded RM60,000 each with grants totalling up to...
Korean Developers Hope To Make Life Fun With Serious Games
Smartphone games nowadays can be more than just about play, with a wide variety of apps developed to help people learn new subjects and even improve their health. Although this category...
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...
Taiwan Makes Moves To Classify eSports under National Sporting Authority
Development and eSports board members have met with the Taiwanese government in the hope of becoming the sixth country to recognise competitive gaming as sport. The Taiwan eSports League in collaboration...
Official calls for stricter game classification in Australia
Australia's new game classification system could still expose minors to violent and sexually explicit games, warns John Rau, Attorney General from South Australia.
Rau claims that despite a government agreement earlier this...
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...
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...
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.
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Gaming Is No Longer Just About Gaming
According to industry reports, mobile gaming revenue in Asia reached US$13.6 billion in 2014, representing 55 per cent of the world’s total market. Boosted by the sector’s fast growth in Southeast...
MS confirms Xbox One for Japan in 2014
Microsoft has announced that the Xbox One, the company's newest game console, will be released in Japan in 2014.
"We are on track to launch (the Xbox One) in Japan and additional...
