Bandai Namco Announces Agreement With The Farm 51
Bandai Namco Entertainment Europe today announced a publishing agreement with The Farm 51 on Get Even, coming to Xbox One in 2016. Get Even is the psychological thriller movie genre made...
Tencent Appoints Two Executives To Head Mergers Team
Tencent has named Jeffrey Li and Forest Lin as co-heads of its merger and acquisition team as Asia’s largest internet company steps up its battle for consumers with Alibaba. Mr Li...
Nexon to Publish the First Title from Dallas Dickinson’s Newly-Founded QC Games
Nexon, headquartered in Tokyo, announced its subsidiary, Nexon America has entered into a strategic partnership with QC Games, a new development studio led by videogame industry veteran Dallas Dickinson. Nexon America has acquired the...
KR online gaming addiction legislation gaining momentum
The Korean assembly is now considering legislative measures to give the government authority to apply the same legal restrictions to online games as alcohol, gambling and drugs.
A government study earlier this...
Former Unity Executive Helps Grow Cloud-Based Game Development Startup
MaxPlay, a game development technology and services company, announced that John Goodale has joined the company as Vice President of Platform Business Development. Goodale, well-known for his success in developing comprehensive, long-term...
Japanese App Line Brings In USD 270 Million Per Year Selling Stickers
Japanese messaging app Line has reported earnings of over $20 million a month from the sale of stickers, reports TechCrunch and Inquisitr. They are usually sold in sets of 12 to...
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...
Nexon CEO Mahoney on Financial Results And Business With NC Soft
Owen Mahoney, chief executive officer of Nexon Co. talks about the company's second-quarter earnings, new games and business strategy. He speaks with Angie Lau on Bloomberg Television's "First Up."
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PS4 launches in the Philippines
PlayStation 4 is now available in the Philippines. The base price for Sony's next-generation console is 24,999 PHP.
Sony Philippines began accepting PS4 pre-orders last December, and is also offering a...
Sony discontinues PSP in JP
Sony has confirmed that the company's PlayStation Portable handheld console will be discontinued in Japan, with a final hardware shipment to domestic retailers in June.
North American deliveries of the ten-year old...
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...
IFLIX RAISES $30M, PRIMED FOR GROWTH
iiflix, Southeast Asia’s leading Internet TV service, offering subscribers unlimited access to thousands of hours of entertainment at a very affordable price, today announced the completion of a $30 million round...
Nintendo Halves Profit Forecast On Strong Yen
Video game giant Nintendo last week chopped its full-year net profit forecast in half, saying slowing sales and a recent pick up in the Japanese currency were eating into its bottom line...
Inquiry concludes that AU pays inflated prices
A government committee has investigated accusations that Australians pay significantly higher prices than consumers overseas for games and other IT products. The committee’s report, released today, includes extensive consumer submissions and...
China Will Make Up 20 % Of The Global Mobile Gaming Market
China has come online with smartphones at an incredible rate, and this has it on pace to rule the world when it comes to spending on smartphone and tablet games, Venturebeat...
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...
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...
How is Tata Communications enabling large scale deployment of esports?
India is considered among the top four countries in the world in esports participation, with over 150 million people playing tournaments. The online gaming industry in the country is...
Importing Video Games to Australia to Become more Expensive
State and Federal treasurers have agreed to abolish the existing $1000 threshold for GST-free purchases on online goods. The State and Federal treasurers have agreed: the existing $1000 threshold for GST-free...
Sony announces over 1M PS4s sold on launch in NA
Sony has confirmed that over one million PlayStation 4 units have been sold since the console's release on 15 November in North America.
"Sales remain very strong in North America," said SCE...
