App Annie turns into the Southeast Asia Market
App Annie, a Mobile Analytics Company, plans to open an office in India by the end of 2015. "India is a huge market after China - it is in a gold rush right now...
Halfbrick launches Fruit Ninja Academy: Math Master
With fresh features such as interactive mini games, unlockable rewards, and collectible stickers, Math Master provides a fun and appealing platform for children to practice, reinforce, and improve their understanding of...
Adways launched App Pre-Registration Service “Geeeks Play” in Southeast Asia Market
Adways Inc. announced its launch of app pre-registration service “Geeeks Play” in Southeast Asia starting from Thailand. The service is currently available in six countries including Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, USA and...
PLAYe is Revolutionizing how People Play Games with 3-in-1 Online-Mobile-Offline Platform
PLAYe, a 3-in-1 online-mobile-offline (OMO) platform that will transform the way games and collectibles will be marketed, distributed and consumed in Singapore and the region was released in August.
“Is there a...
Asia to take over 50% of all mobile games revenue in 2018
Digi-Capital forecasts that Games Software Revenue will grow from $88 billion in 2015 to $110 billion by 2018 at 8% annual growth. In a single digit growth market, games leaders with...
Tencent To Open WeChat Payment For Overseas Transactions
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has just announced that it will completely open the mobile payment service offered on its social messaging app WeChat to overseas transactions, making it much easier for...
MapleStory 2 Will be Published by Tencent in China
Nexon will enter into an agreement with Tencent to service MapleStory 2 in China.
Developed in-house and launched in Korea in July 2015, MapleStory 2 is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game. In...
Mobile Games In China Continue To Power MNC Media’s Revenue Growth
Strong demand for mobile games and social e-commerce in China has continued to propel Singapore based MNC Media Investment, a provider of media and entertainment content and services in key strategic...
The SG50 Game Series By Local Singaporean Developers
To celebrate Singapore’s 50th birthday, five mobile games that are specifically designed to be uniquely Singaporean will be released to the Google Play and iOS App Stores. This is part of an...
Line Forges Strategic Partnership with Locojoy to Raise Games-only Investment Funds
On 8. September, global mobile messaging platform Line announced that it forged a strategic partnership with Chinese game developer Locojoy to raise game-only investment funds through joint investment.
Locojoy is the company...
GungHo Online releases Freak Tower
GungHo Online, the Japanese developer behind the mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons, announced the launch of their newest F2P title for iOS and Android, the tower-defence building sim Freak Tower.
GungHo’s...
China-ASEAN Mobile Internet Industry Alliance Hosted Its First Mobile Game Conference In Jakarta
Hundreds of game developers from China and Indonesia gathered at the Century Park Hotel, Jakarta yesterday, for an annual event to discuss the future of Indonesia’s gaming industry. The event was...
Flaregames Partners With NetEase In China
flaregames, a Germandeveloper and publisher of F2P mobile games, has today announced that Dawn of Steel, its deeply tactical strategy game for smartphones and tablets, will be published in mainland China...
NHN to Shut Down Several Games Including TERA and Kritika
Korean game company NHN is going to sharp cut the client game business. Most of the games they published might possibly be shut down, including the hot MMO TERA and Kritika.
By...
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...
Meet GMGC´s Business Development Head, Teddy Florea
In November the Global Mobile Game Confederation (GMGC) host their next event in China (Chengdu), the Mobile Game Developers Conference. IGA.biz spoke with one of the main business driver behind GMGC,...
Tencent predicts explosive CN mobile growth
Chinese Internet operator and game publisher Tencent expects explosive growth in the Chinese mobile games market, and predicts the strongest revenues to come from titles in the traditional RPG, FPS and...
Capcom reveals Blade Fantasia for iOS
Capcom has announced a new RPG for iOS devices. Blade Fantasia, created by veterans from the company's Breath of Fire and Devil May Cry series, will be released in Japan on...
Nexon Teams Up With Respawn To Bring “Titanfall” Games To Mobile
Nexon and Respawn Entertainment announced that the companies have partnered to create several new and original smartphone and tablet games based on the expansive sci-fi universe of Titanfall. In connection with the...
Line adds 5M users in India to its 200M user base
According to Line’s global strategy and marketing chief Jun Masuda, Line has “gained five million users only in three weeks” in India.
Jun also notes that Line faces stiff competition for users...
