AU cancels dev funding scheme
The Australian government has announced the cancellation of the Australian Interactive Games Fund. The game development stimulus program will end on 1 July
The three-year A$20 million investment package was announced in...
Philips suing Nintendo over Wii tech
Philips has filed a lawsuit in the US against Nintendo over motion control technology used in Nintendo Wii and Wii U game consoles.
The patent infringement case covers the remote motion control...
Kakao Talk hits 500M DLs and 145M users
Kakao has announced the company's popular mobile messaging and app distribution platform Kakao Talk has registered more than 500 million downloads and over 145 million MAUs on iOS and Android devices...
Kadokawa/Dwango merger announced
Japanese media group Kadokawa and mobile internet content provider Dwango have announced that the companies will merge on 1 October.
Dwango chairman Nobuo Kawakami will lead the merged company, and Kadokawa's Tatsuo...
Flappy Bird dev to re-launch hit title
Hanoi-based developer Nguyen Ha Dong (Dong Nguyen) has announced that his viral mobile hit Flappy Bird will return to iOS and Android devices in August. The re-launched game will also reportedly...
F2P Pokémon 3DS title launches in Sept
The Pokémon Company has announced that Thieves and the 1,000 Pokémon, a new F2P Pokémon title for Nintendo 3DS, will launch worldwide in June.
The Thieves and the 1,000 Pokémon will utilise...
JP release for PS4 exclusive Omega Quintet
Japanese developer and publisher Compile Heart has announced that the studio's new idol-RPG Omega Quintet will launch exclusively for Sony PlayStation 4 in Japan on 18 September.
The Tokyo-based studio was founded...
Pokémon OR/AS 3DS re-release announced
The Pokémon Company has revealed that new Nintendo 3DS versions of the popular Pokémon Omega Ruby and Pokémon Alpha Sapphire titles for Nintendo GBA will launch worldwide in November.
“Pokémon fans first...
FF XIV: ARR tops 2M players worldwide
Square Enix has reported that the publisher's MMO Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has registered over 2 million player accounts worldwide.
Square Enix launched a beta version of Final Fantasy XIV:...
Slow pachinko/packaged sales lower Sega profits
Sega Sammy Holdings reported operating income up 103 per cent year-on-year at 38.5 billion JPY (US$379 million) on net revenue of 378 billion JPY (US$3.7 billion), also up 17.6 per cent...
SQEX returns to profit but forecasts lower sales
Square Enix has reported operating income of 10.5 billion JPY (US$103 million) for the fiscal year ending 31 March, compared to a 6 billion JPY (US$59 million) operating loss in the...
DeNA lowers forecast on falling browser sales
Japanese mobile game publisher and Mobage social gaming platform operator DeNA has lowered estimated fiscal year operating profits down sharply on falling browser game revenues, a mainstay of the company's business.
DeNA...
CCA confirms Indie Prize Showcase games
Indie Prize, a scholarship program created by the Casual Games Association for independent developers, has announced over 80 games to be featured at the Indie Prize Showcase at Casual Connect Asia...
Dark Souls 2 lifts Bandai Namco results
Bandai Namco has reported operating income of 44.6 billion JPY (US$438 million) and a 4.2 per cent rise in net revenues to 507 billion JPY (US$5 billion) for the fiscal year...
Nintendo to target EMs with new hardware
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has revealed plans to bring new gaming devices to emerging markets such as China next year.
“We want to make new things, with new thinking rather than a...
Capcom profits rise on strong MH 4, DR 3 sales
Capcom has reported a 1.5 per cent year-on-year increase in operating income to 10.3 billion JPY (US$101 million) with net revenues up 8.6 per cent year-on-year to 102.2 billion JPY (US$1...
Sega F2P coin-drop RPG launches overseas
Sega has released Dragon Coins, a F2P RPG combining coin-drop mechanics and monster-fusing gameplay, for iOS and Android devices in Europe and North America.
“Full of personality and flair, Dragon Coins continues...
Nintendo plans NFC figurines, extended licensing
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has announced plans to launch a line of Nintendo figurines linked via NFC to games for the Wii U and 3DS consoles.
“Nintendo has a lot of well-known...
Konami’s results fall on declining game sales
Konami Corporation has reported 217.6 billion JPY (US$2.13 billion) in net revenues with 10.3 billion JPY (US$106 million) in operating income for the fiscal year ending 31 March.
Net profit fell to...
Nintendo posts third consecutive annual loss
Nintendo has reported a worse than expected, third consecutive operating loss of 46.4 billion JPY (US$457 million) on revenues of US$5.63 billion, as well as a net loss of 23.2 billion...
