SEA Publishers and Their Market Strategies – Panel at Mobile Game Asia Congress with...
In a couple of days (July 9-10) the Mobile Games Asia Congress in Ho Chi Minh City will open its doors. Mobile Game Asia focuses on providing insights into different Asian...
Malaysia Consults McKinsey To Build ‘Silicon Valley’ Startup Hub
The Malaysian government has engaged consulting firm McKinsey & Company in an ambitious plan to make the country the technology start-up hub of south-east Asia, and lure US and Australian investors....
China’s Gamers Aren’t Buying Many Consoles
A report from Joshua Brustein from Bloomberg shows the retail sales results of Sony and Microsofts console Business in China.
Now that China’s ban on retail sales of video-game consoles has been...
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...
Update on ChinaJoy 2015
This year’s ChinaJoy will add two exhibition halls with a combined area of nearly 20,000sqm, making the total exhibition area exceed 120,000 sqm. Among the 10 exhibition halls, 7 will be...
BitSummit Returns to Kyoto
Japan’s leading independent game development festival, BitSummit, unveiled the line-up of sponsors, media partners and developers participating in the Show. BitSummit will be held July 11th and 12th in Kyoto, Japan.
BitSummit...
The Top Mobile Gaming Trends 2015 in Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia will be an exciting gaming market to watch in 2015 as 2014 was an incredible year for the mobile gaming industry in Southeast Asia. The industry recorded impressive growth and reached...
Webzen Is Looking For International Partners
In April 2015, Webzen expanded its business area into the mobile market, with the release of mobile MMORPG ‘MU: Origin’, and became one of the biggest mobile game publishers in Korea....
Singapore’s Answer to Tencent and Alibaba
This is a Background Story from Forbes Asia´s Jessica Tan about Garena´s success Story. The Story appears in the Forbes Asia July 2015 edition. On a balmy Sunday in June 2005 Forrest Li attended...
Activision Blizzard and NetEase announced China Deal
Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase announced a three-year agreement to license Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch to a NetEase affiliate in China.
Revealed last November, Overwatch brings Blizzard’s signature easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay to the FPS genre. “With Overwatch,...
GigaMedia Acquires Strawberry Cosmetics
GigaMedia Limited, an online games and computing services provider, today announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 70% equity interest in Strawberry Cosmetics Holding Limited,...
Nintendo: This Is The Reason Why Wii U Was A Retail Disaster
Despite the Wii U launching a full year ahead of competition from Microsoft and Sony, Wii U sales lag behind those of its competitors: Wii U has sold around 7.5 million units worldwide,...
Indonesia’s Smartphone Market Jumps 55%
According to a new Report from Counterpoint Research Indonesia’s smartphone market has expanded 55 per cent in Q1 / 2015,as compared to an year ago, and now accounts for just over half...
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...
2 Million Votes for FIFA 16 Leagues – Thai League SEA´s Top League
FIFA fans from around the world have voted over 2 million times for their favourite leagues to be featured in coming EA Sports FIFA 16 game. The vote setup by FIFPlay.com...
Gungho Online Entered Partnership With Camouflaj
GungHo Online Entertainment America, the US subsidary of GungHo Japan, announced that the company has entered into a partnership with independent game studio Camouflaj to promote and publish future titles, including upcoming episodes...
Boomzap Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Legends of Fire & Steel
Legends of Fire & Steel is an innovative turn-based single and multiplayer fantasy world conquest game that we are currently developing for PC, Mac, and mobile tablets. Set in a world...
Increase in Number of Games Startups in Malaysia Through GameFounders Asia Program
GameFounders describes itself as a global gaming accelerator, and according to a three-year partnership with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), has made Malaysia its hub for Asia.
Digital News Asia reported that the partnership...
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...
Asian and Malaysian Qualifier for ESL One Tournament at gamescom 2015
The Asian offline Qualifier for ESL One, Counter Strike: Global Offensive at gamescom 2015 will take place in July and will feature eight top teams from around the region with one slot is...
