Nexon Connect game messaging app adds iOS in Japan
Nexon has announced the upcoming Japanese iOS version of its Nexon Connect messaging app. The game-only chat app is already available for PC web browsers and Android smartphones in Japan.
The Nexon...
Line’s earnings up 45.3 per cent, users top 200 million worldwide
NHN Japan, a subsidary of Korean online game operator NHN Corporation, announced first financial quarter revenues for the company's Line mobile messaging service of 12.8 billion JPY, up 45.3 per cent...
Korean Netmarble reports record profits, plans overseas expansion
CJ Corporation, the parent of Korean F2P game developer and publisher Netmarble, reported second quarter mobile game, music and film earnings grew 18 per cent year on year to 3,917 billion...
DeNA earnings up 10 per cent to 52.2 billion JPY
Japanese mobile gaming and ecommerce platform DeNA reported first quarter results of JPY 52.2 billion JPY (US$532 million), up 10 percent year on year. The company's operating profit for the period...
GREE closing Tellit mobile messaging service
GREE has notified Tellit users to announce plans to close the service at the start of September.
"We launched Tellit last year in an effort to make it easy for people to...
China’s Yodo1 partners with BonusXP to release Cavemania
Chinese mobile game publisher Yodo1 revealed today that the company has partnered with US developer BonusXP to distribute Cavemania worldwide this fall. The Texas-based mobile game studio has also produced Age...
Messaging app GupShup adds nine local languages in India
GupShup has announced the roll out of nine Indian languages for users of the company's mobile messaging app in India: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. The...
Kakao game platform hits 30M players
Korea’s Kakao game platform has acquired 30 million players, according to Kakao's Eric Choi. The platform is part of the Kakao Talk mobile messaging service, with 100 million users and available...
Nexon invests in US game studio Rumble Entertainment
Korean online gaming publisher Nexon has announced a cash investment in exchange for a minority stake in US developer Rumble Entertainment, maker of F2P social titles for hardcore gamers on multiple...
Japan must invest to succeed in China, says DeNA China’s CEO
DeNA's Wang Yong, the Japanese social gaming platform's CEO in China, stated at a ChinaJoy press gathering that the company continues to bear pressure in the Chinese market and from domestic...
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...
Excalibur at 20M downloads, dev Linekong plans overseas expansion
Chinese game studio Linekong's mobile title Excalibur has tallied over 20 million downloads in China.
Developed with an eye to global markets and currently localised in-house, Linekong now plans to launch...
Korean Com2uS goes global with Tiny Pop and Heroes War
South Korean game developer and publisher Com2uS has announced the global release Tiny Pop and Heroes War for iOS and Android platforms.
Tiny Pop and Heroes War are popular in Korea, having...
Perfect World and China Mobile announce mobile game partnership
Perfect World CEO Wang Xiao and China Mobile Game Service Center (CMGSC) GM Liu Hao jointly announced the new strategic alliance for mobile devices at ChinaJoy in Shanghai.
Wang Xiao said, "We...
Two CEOs speak out on the industry’s shift to mobile
Speaking at the China Digital Entertainment Congress in Shanghai, Touch Technology CEO Chen Haozhi and Blue Harbor CEO Wang Feng talked about the changing domestic games market and the challenges of...
Chinese mobile Internet revenues reach new highs
In a press briefing yesterday, a spokesman from China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said that Chinese mobile Internet revenues grew by 56.8 per cent for the first half...
Renren Games partners with Flurry to bring analytics to mobile game devs in China
China's Renren Games has formed a partnership with US mobile analytics firm Flurry to provide analytics and monetisation services to Chinese mobile game developers on Renren Games’ publishing platform.
The new...
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...
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...
