Parent Sega looking to Atlus to develop dormant IP
According to a statement by Sega Sammy COO Naoya Tsurumi, the company would "love to have (newly acquired Atlus) utilise any of Sega's dormant IPs."
Sega IPs that are currently dormant...
Sony sells 2.1M PS4s overseas ahead of Asian launch
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House has announced that the company sold 2.1 million PlayStation 4 units as of 1 December, with 700,000 consoles purchased in Europe and Australia within days...
Mobile, PC games to drive SEA market growth to US$1.2B
Niko Partners managing partner Lisa Cosmas Hanson expects the Southeast Asian games market to double in value from US$661 million to US$1.2 billion by 2017. Mobile and PC games will be...
SQEX confirms FF XIV: A Realm Reborn to PS4 next year
Square Enix has announced that the popular MMORPG version of the Final Fantasy series, FF XIV: A Realm Reborn, will launch on PlayStation 4 in April 2014.
Prior to launch, the...
SEA smartphone sales up 61 per cent, Android takes 72 per cent
Southeast Asian smartphone sales rose 61 per cent in the first three quarters of this year, reports market research firm GfK Asia.
From January to September this year, consumers spent US$10.8...
CN and KR dominate WCG 2013 Grand Final results
The World Cyber Games 2013 Grand Final in Kunshan, China concluded on Sunday, with world's top 500 esports teams and players from 40 countries meeting over four days to compete in...
Rune Factory dev files for bankruptcy in Japan
Neverland, the Japanese developer of Marvelous AQL's popular RPG sim Rune Factory, has ceased operations, according to a statement by the studio. Citing 'changing economic conditions', the company will begin bankruptcy...
Tencent’s Weixin tops 570M game downloads in China
Tencent has announced that the company's Weixin mobile messaging app in China (WeChat overseas) has registered over 570 million game downloads since launching the LinkLink social game platform via Weixin three...
LandShark launches ‘Occupy’ inspired social puzzler Bad Candy
Singapore based developer LandShark Games has announced the release of Bad Candy for iOS and Facebook, a puzzle logic social game for "a worthy cause."
Developers at the studio were inspired to...
Intel Extreme Masters returns to Singapore
Intel Extreme Masters is gathering some of the best esports players and teams in Asia and around the globe to compete in StarCraft II and League of Legends from 28 November...
SQEX releases FFIV: The After Years for smartphones overseas
Square Enix has announced the launch of Final Fantasy 4 sequel The After Years for iOS and Android devices worldwide.
Final Fantasy 4: The After Years was released for Japanese mobile devices...
Report claims overseas games lose CN sales with Google billing
A new report on mobile market trends released by Chinese Android app store Wandoujia states that games from overseas might be losing potential revenue by using the Google Play in-app billing...
MS Halo dev Corrinne Yu moves to Sony’s Naughty Dog studio
Hong Kong born programmer Corrinne Yu has joined Sony developer Naughty Dog, moving from her previous post at Microsoft's 343 Industries as Principal Engine Architect on the Halo series.
Yu is a...
PW launches Forsaken World expansion Dysil’s Wrath
Perfect World Entertainment has released Dysil’s Wrath worldwide, a new expansion to the Chinese publisher's popular F2P MMO Forsaken World.
"We couldn’t be more thrilled to release this latest expansion to our...
Atlus confirms new Persona titles for Japanese release
Atlus has announced a new line-up of Persona games for release in Japan next year.
Persona 5 for Sony PlayStation 3 will launch in Q4 2014. Persona Q: Shadow of the...
NHN’s Line messaging app registers 300M users worldwide
Line has 300 million registered users worldwide, said executives from parent NHN Japan at a press conference in Tokyo. The company also announced US$10 million in global monthly character sales.
As reported...
MS Xbox One sells 1M units on launch in US, EU and AU/NZ
Microsoft has announced that more than one million Xbox One units were sold less than 24 hours after the new game console’s launch. The Xbox One debuted in thirteen markets on...
Bandai to launch Tamagotchi Friends worldwide in 2014
Japanese toymaker Bandai has announced a new series of Tamagotchi virtual pets to celebrate the seventeenth anniversary of the franchise.
The Tamagotchi Friends line will be supported by new devices, technology and...
NZ ad agency creates mobile AR game for pizza lovers
New Zealand advertising agency One Fat Sheep has created a mobile title that turns a local restaurant chain's pizza boxes into a 3D augmented reality game.
The Zombies from Hell game for...
WCS 2014 to bring back KR GSL, up local qualifier slots
Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the StarCraft 2 World Championships (WCS) in 2014 will reintroduce Korea's GOMTV Global StarCraft II League (GSL), as well as expand local qualifier slots in North...
