Mobile apps to boost Asia’s educational game market
A report from market research firm Ambient Insight predicts that the market for educational games in Asia will grow to US$1.723 billion by 2017. The analysis was completed last year and...
CESA survey examines game developers in Japan
Japan's Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) announced the results of a survey of game developers in conjunction with the CEDEC conference that begins today in Yokohama.
The report collected 473 responses, and...
Online games push Perfect World earnings up 13.5 per cent
Perfect World announced second quarter revenues of 708.5 million RMB (US$115.4 million), up 13.5 per cent and exceeding analysts’ expectations.
The quarter’s key growth sector was online games, with earnings of 650.1...
Rosh Online coming to Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam
Chinese online game developer Galaxy Gate has announced that the company's popular F2P MMORPG Rosh Online will be expanding into Southeast Asia, with contracts recently signed for the game's distribution in...
China Telecom and Netease to launch mobile messaging service
China Telecom and Netease have announced the upcoming release of Yixin, a new mobile messaging and social networking platform. The joint venture will be operated by Zhejiang Yixin Technology, with China...
Vietnam tops PC Internet activity in SEA
ComScore revealed in a new survey of online PC use that Vietnam has most active Internet population in Southeast Asia. The country registered 16.1 million monthly active users at the end...
Tencent posts stable results, messaging and games growth
Tencent reported second quarter revenues of 14.385 billion RMB (US$2.328 billion), up 36.6 per cent year on year. However operating profits fell for the period to 4.565 billion RMB (US$738.8 million),...
Com2uS posts rising global revenues, looks to grow overseas
Korean Com2uS released second quarter sales results today of 20.3 billion KRW, with a record of 2 billion KRW in operating profits, up 69.1 per cent year on year.
In Korea,...
Nexon posts record sales, beats forecasts
Nexon, with headquarters in Japan, reported record earnings for the second quarter of 36.624 billion JPY, up 60 per cent from last year. The company's operating profits also rose 21 per...
Gamania earnings top record, PSO 2 for 2014
Taiwanese developer and publisher Gamania reported first half revenues of NT$4.021 billion, an increase of 10 per cent year on year and a half year record high.
The company also announced...
Nexon Connect game messaging app adds iOS in Japan
Nexon has announced the upcoming Japanese iOS version of its Nexon Connect messaging app. The game-only chat app is already available for PC web browsers and Android smartphones in Japan.
The Nexon...
Line’s earnings up 45.3 per cent, users top 200 million worldwide
NHN Japan, a subsidary of Korean online game operator NHN Corporation, announced first financial quarter revenues for the company's Line mobile messaging service of 12.8 billion JPY, up 45.3 per cent...
Korean Netmarble reports record profits, plans overseas expansion
CJ Corporation, the parent of Korean F2P game developer and publisher Netmarble, reported second quarter mobile game, music and film earnings grew 18 per cent year on year to 3,917 billion...
DeNA earnings up 10 per cent to 52.2 billion JPY
Japanese mobile gaming and ecommerce platform DeNA reported first quarter results of JPY 52.2 billion JPY (US$532 million), up 10 percent year on year. The company's operating profit for the period...
Namco Bandai’s quarter mixed, game earnings stable
Namco Bandai released their first quarter results recording sales of 105.8 billion JPY, down 2.6 per cent year on year, with quarterly operating profits down 17.4 per cent at 13.3 billion...
Giant Interactive’s revenues up 11.3 per cent
Chinese game developer and publisher Giant Interactive announced second quarter revenues of 588.1 million RMB (US$95.8 million), an increase of 2.7 per cent from the previous quarter and a rise of...
Marvelous AQL reports strong sales, revises forcasts up
Japanese game and anime producer Marvelous AQL reported first quarter revenues of 4.4 billion JPY, up 46.2 per cent year on year. The company also revised its operating profit forecast up...
Mobile and web games in Asia lift Square Enix’ results
Square Enix today reported a first quarter deficit of 493 million JPY (circa US$5 million), a year on year improvement from losses of 2.01 billion JPY (circa US$21 million) recorded last...
GREE closing Tellit mobile messaging service
GREE has notified Tellit users to announce plans to close the service at the start of September.
"We launched Tellit last year in an effort to make it easy for people to...
China’s Yodo1 partners with BonusXP to release Cavemania
Chinese mobile game publisher Yodo1 revealed today that the company has partnered with US developer BonusXP to distribute Cavemania worldwide this fall. The Texas-based mobile game studio has also produced Age...
