Is Alibaba’s ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition’ its first real entrance into...

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding may have struck gold with its strategy simulation game, Romance of the Three Kingdoms: Strategy Edition. The game, created by its subsidiary Ejoy,...
Freak Tower

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...
iOS and Android

iOS app sales US$10B in 2013; 1B Android users by 2014

Apple has announced that the company's App Store for iOS devices posted US$10 billion in global revenues for 2013. Popular games last year included Candy Crush Saga, Puzzles and Dragons, Minecraft...

Former CEO of gumi Asia Started His Own Mobile Game Company

After starting up Japanese game maker gumi's global arm in Singapore in 2012 and snagging an unprecedented deal last year to make a mobile game for Disney's animated movie Big Hero...

Campus Game Fest Singapore Announced for End of June 2015

Campus Game Fest Singapore (CGF) is a 3 year initiative spearheaded by the Singapore CyberSports & Online Gaming Association (SCOGA), Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and People’s Association Youth Movement (PAYM),...

Sonic Runners Now Available Worldwide For Mobile Devices

How far will Sonic run?! SEGA announced that Sonic Runners™ is now available worldwide*. The 2D side-scrolling infinite runner is the first free-to-play (F2P) Sonic title created exclusively for mobile by the...

Attention! That’s The Secret To Mobile Game Success

In the over-saturated mobile games market, publishers are increasingly willing to pay to get their titles in front of eager players according to a report from Nielsen. Whether it be through...

Tencent QQ Is Entering The Augmented Reality Arena

Tencent QQ is entering the augmented reality (AR) arena, triggering a trend among QQ users in China who have started to play a game called "Experience AR by Passing the QQ...

Summon Night Memories to End Service in October

Bandai Namco is shutting down its Summon Night Memories smartphone strategy RPG after only nine months of service, the publisher announced. Summon Night Memories launched for iOS and Android devices in...
JP Mobile Gamers

Tencent And Netease Take Makes 70% Of Chinese Mobile Games Market

Tencent and Netease have enlarged their duopoly of China's mobile games market, with a total market share approaching 70%. Though still far behind, Netease has narrowed its gap with Tencent. Yet,...
Line

Japanese Authorities Inspect Line Over Game Item

Japanese financial regulators have raided the offices of the messaging app operator Line Corp., the company said Wednesday, over what a person familiar with the matter said was the use of...

Mobile Game Asia Returns At Kuala Lumpur With A Huge Speakers Line-Up

In a few weeks Global Mobile Game Confederation will host their premier event Mobile Game Asia at the capital city of Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur. Taking place at Berjaya Times Square Hotel, in...

Asia-Pacific Leads the Way in Global Mobile Gaming Boom

Asia-Pacific is reported to be both the largest and the fastest growing gaming market worldwide said a research report from Reportlinker. While the shift to digital games is happening worldwide, Asia-Pacific...
Mobile growth and market disruption for Asia in 2014

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,...

Asiasoft turns attention to mobile game platform to recover from revenue slide

The mobile game platform will be the key engine this year driving Asiasoft Corporation's targeted growth of 30 per cent to Bt1.7 billion in revenue. Chief executive officer Pramote Sudjitporn said...

Heroes Die Forever as Nexon Korea Soft-Launches Legacy Quest on Android

Family bloodlines are at stake as Nexon Co., Ltd. announced its Korean subsidiary, Nexon Korea Corporation, is rolling out the soft-launch of its latest epic mobile action role-playing game Legacy Quest. The...

App Annie presents Top Mobile Games in the Southeast Asia’s Market

AppAnnie announced the most well performed mobile games in Southeast Asia. At Casual Connect Asia, Junde Yu, Vice President APAC, delivered the speech of Mobile Game Trends in Worldwide and INSEA, giving...

The Global Mobile Games Industry 2015 Whitebook is available now

The Global Mobile Game Confederation (GMGC) which opened ist doors today in Bejing and Newzoo are today launching the 2015 Global Mobile Game Industry Whitebook. This 21-page whitebook examines the current state...
Asian mobile game investment up

Mobile game acquisitions and investments up in Asia

According to a new report from investment firm Digi-Capital, game acquisitions and investments are rising in Asia. Global game acquisitions totalled US$3.3 billion through the third quarter of 2013, with the...

Japan Is The World’s Largest Mobile Games Market

Asia has 1.2 billion mobile gamers and controls 55% of the $24.9 billion in worldwide mobile games revenue. The “Big Three” of China, Japan and South Korea currently control 90% of...