Basics of How To Monetize a Mobile Game in China
China is regarded as a leader in F2P, with consumers unwilling to pay upfront for games. This all started with the famous Chinese console ban. With no consoles, gamers turned to...
Why Russian IT Companies Are Moving To Asia
East Asia is the third-largest market for Russian-origin IT companies after the U.S. and the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to experts. Climatic conditions, a growing middle class and cheaper overheads...
37Games Investing 100 Million USD in Its “Rising Dragon” Plan
37Games, a Chinese top 30 internet company, recently acquired SNK Playmore, one of the most renowned Japanese game companies. Now 37Games has started its overseas investing plan called "Rising Dragon," investing 100 million dollars...
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...
NVIDIA Corporation’s Exposure to China Is Lower Than You Think by Timothy Green
In August, Goldman Sachs put out a list, which was subsequently picked up by various news outlets, containing the 20 S&P 500 companies that had the highest revenue exposure to China....
Konami Launches Metal Gear Online
Konami Digital Entertainment today launches Metal Gear Online, the dedicated, squad-based multiplayer component of its best-selling Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain title for PlayStation®4, PlayStation®3, Xbox One™, and Xbox...
Singapore’s Garena Benefits From Venture Capital Boom
A report from Channel News Asia said, one beneficiary of the boom is internet firm Garena, which has joined Southeast Asia's small but growing ranks of "unicorns" - start-up firms that are...
Level-5 and Dentsu Form Level-5 Abby Inc.
A new North American-headquartered global entertainment company, Level-5 abby Inc., has been formed to bring the best of Japanese children’s entertainment across all platforms and channels, it was announced today by Mr....
Tencent Appoints Two Executives To Head Mergers Team
Tencent has named Jeffrey Li and Forest Lin as co-heads of its merger and acquisition team as Asia’s largest internet company steps up its battle for consumers with Alibaba. Mr Li...
KICK9 Recipient of Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award
Mobile game publisher KICK9 Inc., was selected as the "Red Herring Asia 2015 Top 100 Enterprise" winners. The award was presented by well-known international business investment magazine "Red Herring (Red Herring)"...
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,...
Tencent Partners with Legendary Pictures for ‘Warcraft’
Tencent Pictures, the motion picture arm of Chinese online company Tencent Holdings Ltd., has announced a partnership with Legendary Pictures involving investing an equity stake in "Warcraft," the film adaptation of...
What Press And Media Outlets Say About Tokyo Game Show 2015
The Tokyo Game Show (TGS) closed its doors on Sunday with the 2nd highest number of visitors in its history. Under the theme “Play Your Way: Games Unleashed”, TGS 2015 had...
Bandai Namco on Bringing Its Japanese Properties to Western Markets
It's no secret that Bandai Namco has been on a localisation spree since the PlayStation 4 launched almost two years ago. It's been busy pumping out translated titles right, left, and...
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,...
Tatsumi Kimishima Is The New President Of Nintendo
Nintendo has a new president: It’s Tatsumi Kimishima, former CEO of the Japanese gaming company’s North American operations, as its new president, selecting a low-profile successor after Satoru Iwata’s passing on July...
Tokyo Game Show 2015 Unveiled Floor Plans
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association has published the floor maps for the expo floor, the business meeting area and the business solution area for this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Sony Computer...
Casual Games Publisher GameTop.com Moves Headquarters to Singapore
Casual games publisher GameTop.com has changed the company headquarters from the United States to Singapore in mid-2015. With the new focus, gamers in the region and around the world can enjoy...
Ubisoft Announces Plans for Next-Generation Theme Park in Malaysia
Have you ever played one of Ubisoft’s games and thought, “This is fun and all, but I’d really like to experience it as a theme park ride”? Good news! That wish...
KCCA to Provide Support for Overseas Expansion of Small Mobile Gaming Companies
Last week the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) announced that it would recruit Korean companies who are willing to participate in its support project for mobile game localization by Sept. 11. The...
