37Games Investing 100 Million USD in Its “Rising Dragon” Plan
37Games, a Chinese top 30 internet company, recently acquired SNK Playmore, one of the most renowned Japanese game companies. Now 37Games has started its overseas investing plan called "Rising Dragon," investing 100 million dollars...
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...
Facebook Appointed Kenneth Bishop To Lead Southeast Asia As Managing Director
Facebook has appointed Kenneth Bishop as managing director for Southeast Asia. Bishop, who has been with the social networking giant since 2011, moves from a role as head of marketing for...
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...
Playlab Lands US$5M Series B Funding From Monk’s Hill Ventures
Thailand-based Playlab has secured US$5 million in Series B funding from venture capital firm Monk’s Hill Ventures in one of the largest game-focused deals in Southeast Asia to date. The funding...
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...
NVIDIA Corporation’s Exposure to China Is Lower Than You Think by Timothy Green
In August, Goldman Sachs put out a list, which was subsequently picked up by various news outlets, containing the 20 S&P 500 companies that had the highest revenue exposure to China....
Major Shareholder and Senior Management Increase Stakes in Linekong as Vote of Confidence for...
Linekong Interactive Group Co., Ltd. , mobile game developer and publisher in China, announced that Wang Feng, Chairman, CEO and Executive Director of the Group purchased an aggregate of 572,000 shares in the company,...
Xbox One Sales Decline In Japan
It’s no secret that there has been a huge shift away from traditional console gaming in Japan. Revenue generated by mobile games now has a majority share in the electronic games market...
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...
YuuZoo Sponsors Electronic Sports China Cup
The global third generation social commerce company, Singapore based YuuZoo, announced it has been granted the rights for co-hosting the upcoming Electronic Sports China Cup (ESCC) Online Gaming Clubs Invitational in...
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...
Asia-Pacific Leads the Way in Global Mobile Gaming Boom
Asia-Pacific is reported to be both the largest and the fastest growing gaming market worldwide said a research report from Reportlinker. While the shift to digital games is happening worldwide, Asia-Pacific...
Southeast Asia Games Industry Celebrates Official Kick-Off of Inside Games Asia Forum
Inside Games Asia Forum 2015 is set to be the showcase of the vitality, dynamic and innovation of the South East Asian Games Industry. The event will bring together Prominent Industry...
Singapore’s Garena Benefits From Venture Capital Boom
A report from Channel News Asia said, one beneficiary of the boom is internet firm Garena, which has joined Southeast Asia's small but growing ranks of "unicorns" - start-up firms that are...
The Rise of Lyto, an Online Gaming Giant in Indonesia
Lyto Game is an Indonesian online game publisher, established in 2003 and headquarters are located in Jakarta. The company published games like Ragnarok Online, Getamped, Seal Online, Cross and many more. If you play...
Southeast Asia Business Leaders Launch Angel-eQ Network in Indonesia
A group of business tycoons in Southeast Asia, including Tony Fernandes, CEO of Air Asia; Shinta Dhanuwardoyo, CEO and Founder of Bubu.com; and Sandiaga Uno, Co-Founder of Saratoga Capital, have come...
Former Guild Wars 2 Lead Designer Eric Flannum Joins Amazon Game Studios
Gamasutra reported that after a 10-year career at ArenaNet, Guild Wars 2 lead designer Eric Flannum has joined Amazon Game Studios to serve as creative director in the development of a...
Level-5 and Dentsu Form Level-5 Abby Inc.
A new North American-headquartered global entertainment company, Level-5 abby Inc., has been formed to bring the best of Japanese children’s entertainment across all platforms and channels, it was announced today by Mr....
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...
