Legal restrictions on ‘addictive’ games proposed in Korea
Fourteen South Korean representatives have joined South Korean politician Shin Eui-jin to introduce a bill grouping online games with alcohol, gambling and drugs as activities in need stricter regulation due to...
A$6M in funding to bolster Australian developers
After weathering the global financial crisis, job cuts and dropping retail sales, ten Australian game development companies have been awarded A$6 million in government funding. The developers chosen were Defiant Development,...
Philippines’ Herrera-Dy calls for game legislation
Bagong Henerasyon party Representative Bernadette Herrera-Dy, vice chairman of the Philippines' House committee on children’s welfare, has urged local executives to enforce regulatory classifications for video games that are sold in...
Aiming releases mobile bestseller Kingdom Corps for iOS and Android
Japanese game studio Aiming Inc. takes Kingdom Corps global with the game's release on Apple's App Store and Google Play. Kingdom Corps is a free-to-play, online card-based strategy RPG and mobile...
Rapid growth for Vietnamese mobile games in 2013
Despite the large number of licensed Chinese and Korean titles that dominate the PC and mobile online game markets in Vietnam, the recent success of the homegrown online mobile title Van...
Thai online market to reach US$132M by 2014
Leading Thai game publisher Asiasoft expects Thailand’s online games turnover to reach US$132 million by 2014. The rapid growth of online gaming since 2009 has been attributed to the spread of...
Ubitus acquires new partners to expand cloud gaming overseas
Following an investment round in led by Samsung Ventures, Taiwan's cloud gaming technology provider Ubitus has rapidly secured new partners China Telecom, LG, Konami, Nexon and Neowiz to drive growth in...
Square Enix establishes Indonesian game studio
Square Enix has joined with Indonesian Gotanda Electronic to start Square Enix Smile Works, the company's first game studio in Indonesia.
Indonesian's increasing purchasing power and consumer confidence, as well as...
Sega to close Medieval II studio in Australia
After significant layoffs in 2012, Sega confirmed that the Brisbane-based developer Sega Studios Australia will be shut down later this year.
Previously known as The Creative Assembly Australia, the studio suffered...
Mobile’s rise brings games industry together in Shanghai
As the games publishing industry faces significant new challenges worldwide with the rise of mobile games, Chinese and overseas business leaders will gather next week in Shanghai to map out strategies...
Tencent launches LinkLink in China, looks to develop WeChat as gaming platform
Following the success of Japan's Line and Korea's KakaoTalk in turning chat apps into mobile game platforms, Tencent has rolled out the social game LinkLink on Weixin (the Chinese WeChat).
Tencent...
Chinese mobile publisher Yodo1 gets US$5M from SingTel
Led by Singapore's SingTel, the Chinese smartphone game publisher Yodo1 has acquired US$5 million in Series A funding to meet demand from Western game studios looking to enter China's 300 million+...
Renren to contribute 10M RMB for online communities research lab
Renren Games has announced plans to donate 10 million RMB to China’s Qinghua University to set up a joint research lab with Qinghua’s psychology department.
The new BBD (Behaviour and Big Data)...
Over 20M users in one year says Japan’s Cygames
Japanese game developer Cygames has announced that its social games portfolio has grown to over 20 million registered users since the company's launch in May 2011.
Cygames most popular title is the...
Korean messaging leader KAKAO moves on mobile games
KAKAO Talk leads the mobile messaging market in Korea and has recently expanded into games and social commerce. KAKAO started its game service last year, with over US$37 million in revenues...
China game sales up 35 per cent in 2012
According to a Chinese government report, domestic game revenues reached 60.28 billion RMB last year, an increase of 35 per cent from 2011. The figures included online, browser and social game...
Indonesia’s Kreon signs Dragon Nest and Mirror War, partners with Live Gamer
Indonesian online game publisher Kreon recently announced the signing of Eyedentity Games' action RPG Dragon Nest and L&K Logic Korea’s Mirror War, and has also joined the Live Gamer platform to...
Pinoy X-Play brings StarCraft II expansion to the Philippines
X-Play has brought the long-awaited first expansion of the best-selling StarCraft II game to the Philippines, which coincided with the global launch by US-based Blizzard Entertainment.
The Heart of the Swarm is...
Taiwan’s Gameflier announces Steal Fighter and Kingdom under Fire II
Launched in Korea by Gravity Games, the MOBA/RPG hybrid title Steal Fighter will be hosted in Taiwan by leading online game publisher Gameflier.
The Taiwanese publisher has also revealed that it will...
