Indonesia Using Games To Understand Slang
Indonesia is using online games to understand how citizens use internet slang to complain about government. The Translator Gator game involves translating government-related phrases from English into six Indonesian languages, with mobile...
Malaysia’s MDeC Appointed New Chief Strategy Officer
Malaysia’s Multimedia Development Corporation has appointed former AirAsia executive, Siva Ramanathan, as its Chief Strategy Officer according to a report at Govinsider.
Ramanathan, who started in the role this month, is responsible...
Japan: Is Growth In The Mobile Games Market Close To Topping Out?
Tumbling earnings at a leading smartphone game developer show that market growth may have peaked, indicating a shift in focus from blockbusters to repeated successes as competition heats up according to...
WeChat And Its African Ventures
China's 1.3 billion-strong market is just the beginning for the world's fifth largest Internet company, Tencent. The tech giant's best-known social network, WeChat, is fast gaining traction in Africa, and mobile banking is...
South Korea’s Games Companies Tumble Amid Tougher Regulations
The number of Korea's gaming companies more than halved in 2014 from five years earlier due to a series of intensified governmental regulations, including a ban on minors' access to online...
Signals PlayStation’s Relocation The End Of An Era In Japan?
Japanese Sony announced in late January that it plans to consolidate its gaming business units, Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment International, to form Sony Interactive Entertainment as of April...
Exports Of Korea’s Content Industry Exceed USD 5 Billion
The exports of South Korea's content industry exceeded USD 5 billion in 2014 due mainly to its continued growth boosted by the global boom of Korean pop culture products, the government...
Digi-Capital: Games To Grow From USD 90B In 2016 To USD 115B By 2020
The games market continues its transition, with leaders consolidating their positions as the balance of power shifts across sectors. The coming years could be both “steady as she goes” for some,...
Thailand’s Mobile Games Market Will Reach US$ 211 Million in 2016
With 60,000 mobile developers, Thailand's mobile app market is ranked third in Southeast Asia, only behind Indonesia and Vietnam. Applift, a mobile app marketing platform, forecasts that Thailand's mobile games market will...
Kids’ Digital And Mobile Behaviour In ASEAN
A new research report on digital media activities in of 6-14 kids in Southeast Asia from SuperAwesome Insights gives a comprehensive picture of kids’ media consumption habits across the main ASEAN markets...
Singapore’s MDA And IDA Will Be Restructured To Form IMDA
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) will be restructured into two new entities: The Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Government Technology Organisation...
Japanese Top Games 2015
Japanese game magazine Famitsu has published a list of the best selling games for 2015 in Japan. Not entirely unexpected either is that the majority of the games are from Nintendo and...
China’s Online Gaming Industry Powering Up By Around 30 Percent Annually
China now is the biggest online gaming market in the world, surpassing USA and Japan. The revenue of China's online gaming sector kept growing by around 30 percent annually in the...
Perfect World Returns To Chinese Equity Markets
Perfect World announced a $1.8 billion deal that would make it the latest in a wave of Chinese companies returning home after giving up on the U.S. stock market. Under the...
China’s Mobile Game Industry Expects Extraordinary Growth
China’s mobile game industry is one of the largest beneficiaries of the smartphone boom. According to a report released by China Game Industry Annual Conference this week, the sales revenue of...
