Singapore’s MDA And IDA Will Be Restructured To Form IMDA
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) will be restructured into two new entities: The Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Government Technology Organisation...
Nintendo President Reveals 2016 Plans
Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima recently talked about his plans for Nintendo for the year 2016 in the Japanese news paper Mainichi Shimbun.
First up, he stated that he wants to surprise Nintendo...
Japanese Top Games 2015
Japanese game magazine Famitsu has published a list of the best selling games for 2015 in Japan. Not entirely unexpected either is that the majority of the games are from Nintendo and...
The Hour Of Code Was Back in Asia!
The Hour of Code aims to get millions of students around the world to try just one hour of coding during the annual US Computer Science Education Week. The simplest of...
Capcom Game Studio Vancouver Teams Up With Epic Games
Capcom confirmed that Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, the development studio behind the acclaimed Dead Rising franchise, will begin working with Epic Games to utilize Unreal Engine 4 for its upcoming projects....
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...
China’s Online Gaming Industry Powering Up By Around 30 Percent Annually
China now is the biggest online gaming market in the world, surpassing USA and Japan. The revenue of China's online gaming sector kept growing by around 30 percent annually in the...
Sony Is Trying To Trademark The Term “Let’s Play”
Let’s play? More like “Let’s Play™,” if Sony has their way. The maker of PlayStation has filed for a trademark on the gaming term. Let’s Play, in case you’re completely out...
Perfect World Returns To Chinese Equity Markets
Perfect World announced a $1.8 billion deal that would make it the latest in a wave of Chinese companies returning home after giving up on the U.S. stock market. Under the...
Amazon Web Services Launches Korean Datacenters for Its Cloud Computing Platform
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the launch of the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, its fifth technology infrastructure region in Asia Pacific (APAC). Starting today, Korean-based businesses and...
Square Enix Closed Cloud Gaming Platform
Yesterday Square Enix announced the closure of their cloud based gaming platform, Shinra Technologies, through a statement on its website. The website of Shinra shut down this morning.
The company had been...
Kaga Create No Longer In Business and Shut Down Business
Another Japanese game developer Kaga Create, publisher of games like Saki: The Nationals and Higurashi When They Cry Sui, shut its doors on the last day of last year, 2015, according to...
Rovio Teams Up With NHN Studio629 For Asian Markets
Rovio and NHN Studio629 announced a partnership to develop a new game using the Angry Birds IP, initially targeting players in Korea and selected other Asian markets. Due for launch later...
Cheetah Mobile Enters New Strategic Agreement with Tencent
Cheetah Mobile Inc. announced it has entered into a new strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited (Tencent Shenzhen), a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited (Tencent), for the two-year...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We will be back in 2016 with more news, reports and updates on the Asian Games Industry.
Star Chef – India’s Most Successful Mobile Game
India's most successful mobile game is not being developed in a gaming studio in Bengaluru or Mumbai, but in the coastal town of Udupi in Karnataka according to a report at...
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...
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...
10 Consumer Tech Trends That Will Define 2016
There are approximately 3.2 billion — and counting — Internet users in the world, and among them, more than half of them are consuming web content via their smartphones according to e27e.co. This...
Best of Interviews 2015: Meet Alexander L. Fernandez
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...
