Winners Of The MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge 2015
The Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia (MDeC) announced eleven winners of the MSC Malaysia Intellectual Property Creators Challenge (IPCC) 2015. The winners were awarded RM60,000 each with grants totalling up to...
NetEase Way To Mobile Games
NetEase launched in 1997 as an e-mail and search-engine operation. It was an early entrant into the "massively multiplayer online role-playing games" (MMORPG) market, launching its "Westward Journey Online" in December 2001....
Singapore as a Key Hub for Japanese Game Companies
Japanese game-makers looking to export their unique brand of entertainment overseas and reach a global workforce have identified Singapore as a major gateway reported Singapore´s Strait Times today. Building on their...
Meet Gerald Tock – CEO of Inzen Studio Singapore
Gerald is CEO at Inzen Studio, a mobile game company that seeks to create new play experiences for audiences worldwide through their constant study of innovation and culture. Inzen's founding five...
Hideo Kojima Has Left Konami
The New Yorker reported that Hideo Kojima’s time with Konami and Kojima Productions has come to an end, as he left the company he’s been with for over 29 years earlier...
Nintendo Introduces A Software Development Kit For Its New NX Videogame Platform
While The Wall Street Journal is reporting on Nintendo’s upcoming handheld/console, code named “Project NX,” word of Nintendo’s new Developer Portal rose to the surface. Introduction of the portal is especially...
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...
A.Storm and KOG Games Partner To Bring Popular MMORPG HeroWarz to North America and...
KOG Games (CEO Eugene Kim), a leading publisher of popular free-to-play action MMORPG’s, and A.Storm (CEO Kim Yoon Jong), a leading Korean game developer, announced today that the two companies have...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Inside Games Asia Forum Unveils A Top Speaker´s Line-up For 2015
The 2015 Inside Games Asia Forum, organized by International Business Media Pte. Ltd., the publisher of the leading B2B Games Industry Source “InsideGamesAsia.biz”, is Asia’s most important visionary game industry event....
Komik Kon Malaysia Will Make Its Debut In November 2015
Malaysia will have its own version of Comic Con in November. Komik Kon will be held at MAEPS Serdang. The fiesta aims to be an annual event for comic lovers, cosplayers,...
NHN to Shut Down Several Games Including TERA and Kritika
Korean game company NHN is going to sharp cut the client game business. Most of the games they published might possibly be shut down, including the hot MMO TERA and Kritika.
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China’s Lead Eastern Group To Buy 10% in Reliance’s Zapak Mobile Games
Chinese conglomerate Lead Eastern Group is picking up 10% stake in Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Games' mobile gaming company Zapak Mobile Games for $15 million, forming a strategic partnership to create and...
Meet Simple Connect Fun Studio – Part of “GameFounders Asia Fall 2015”
Starting this week GameFounders will be introducing the teams of their "GameFounders Asia Fall 2015 program". In total GameFounder has 10 developers altogether, all of them with different backgrounds and different games,...
How Social & Mobile Gaming Increase Sales
Social and mobile gaming have democratized video games to a greater extent than ever thought possible and in the process, have opened up new demographics for gaming companies (Source: Tim Alan,...
Google provides the Platform for all China’s VR Hardware Makers
Google has drawn media attention with its recent investment in the Swedish video game developer Resolution Games to the tune of US$6 million and its launch of a second generation of...
