Vietnam’s Mobile Game Market Experiencing Rapid Growth
Vietnam's mobile game market is developing quickly, attendees of the 2015 Mobile Games Asia conference in Ho ChiMinh City heard. The event last week attracted representatives from leading Asian game companies...
Disney Showcases Biggest Gaming Content Line Up at China Joy
Disney Interactive China showcased a host of international plus locally produced mobile game titles from Star Wars™, Marvel and Disney at the China Joy Expo 2015, the country’s largest and most...
Computer Game Sales hit $9.7 Billion in China
Sales of computer games in China hit 60.5 billion yuan ($9.7 billion) during the first half of 2015, a 21.9 percent jump compared to the same period last year. The figures...
World Cyber Arena – Global eSports Tournament Starts in Europe
The World Cyber Arena, a China based international organizer of eSports tournaments, announced their entry into the European market aiming to strengthen eSports as a global industry. Aside from the European qualifier,...
Gaming Console Makers Back in China for the ChinaJoy 2015
This year’s ChinaJoy captures the attention of console makers, as the event has shown high potential for promoting their products and services. The country’s rapidly growing levels of gamers serve as...
South Korean Game Developers Are Achieving Success In The Overseas Market
South Korean game developers are achieving success in the overseas market. The games are seeing long-term results and meaningful performance in terms of cumulative sales. Domestic game makers have entered the...
Netmarble Eyes M&A’s Overseas
Netmarble, a front-runner in Korea’s mobile game market, is aiming to make forays into the global market through aggressive mergers and acquisitions. Netmarble Games held a press conference on July 15...
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...
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...
‘Shenmue III’ Raises Over USD 6 Million In Kickstarter Campaign
"Shenmue III", whose Kickstarter was announced this year by Sony at their annual E3 keynote, more than tripled its initial goal of $2 million and raised $6,333,296. This broke "Bloodstained: Ritual of...
Android vs. iOS Battle Heats Up in China
China’s mobile games market will reach $6.5 billion in revenues this year, more than one fifth of the $30.1 billion generated worldwide . This positions China as the world's biggest market...
Chinese Gaming Company NetDragon Acquires Ed-Tech Provider Promethean
Promethean World PLC, a U.K.-based business that made a name for itself selling interactive whiteboards in the United States and abroad, will be purchased by NetDragon Websoft Inc., a Chinese online-game...
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55
Nintendo announced yesterday that ist President Satoru Iwata has died due to a bile duct growth at the age of 55. A brief statement posted to the company’s web site says: “Nintendo...
Stephanie Catley Named Winner Of The Austrailian FIFA 16 Cover Vote
Electronic Arts Sports announced Stephanie Catley, defender for the Westfield Matildas, the winner of the Australian 'EA SPORTS™ FIFA 16' cover vote, joining superstar Lionel Messi. Catley saw off fellow Westfield...
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...
President of Sega Japan Finally Realizes That Gaming Quality Is Important
Over the years Sega’s fortunes, quality of games and popularity have declined quite considerably. More recently the publisher decided to move over to mobile but it seems that the president of...
NGames’ new MMORPG “Exiled Gods” Is Now Out In Malaysia and Singapore
NGames has launched their new MMORPG 'Exiled Gods' for select regions in a sort of a soft launch. As the story goes with "Exiled Gods", a big event has happened where the...
Google Is Expanding Its Presence In Korea’s Mobile Transactions Market
Google is expanding its presence in Korea's mobile transactions market after the government eased regulations allowing payment gateway (PG) operators to handle payment and settlement services on mobile devices according to...
Ourpalm Invests in Ben10 Game Developer Animoca
Animoca Brands announced that Ourpalm Co Ltd has agreed to make a strategic cash investment in the company. Ourpalm will invest USD 2.3 million in cash for 11.11% of the Company’s expanded share...
Venture Captalists Broad Themes 2015 for Southeast Asia
The online platform, mobility, speed and tackling the rising middle class in Southeast Asia continues to be among the broad current trends that venture capitalists (VCs) are keen on. In a...
