Chinajoy and WMGC 2013

Mobile’s rise brings games industry together in Shanghai

As the games publishing industry faces significant new challenges worldwide with the rise of mobile games, Chinese and overseas business leaders will gather next week in Shanghai to map out strategies...
Tencent WeChat Linklink

Tencent launches LinkLink in China, looks to develop WeChat as gaming platform

Following the success of Japan's Line and Korea's KakaoTalk in turning chat apps into mobile game platforms, Tencent has rolled out the social game LinkLink on Weixin (the Chinese WeChat). Tencent...
Yodo1 and SingTel

Chinese mobile publisher Yodo1 gets US$5M from SingTel

Led by Singapore's SingTel, the Chinese smartphone game publisher Yodo1 has acquired US$5 million in Series A funding to meet demand from Western game studios looking to enter China's 300 million+...
Cygames

Over 20M users in one year says Japan’s Cygames

Japanese game developer Cygames has announced that its social games portfolio has grown to over 20 million registered users since the company's launch in May 2011. Cygames most popular title is the...
KAKAO Talk

Korean messaging leader KAKAO moves on mobile games

KAKAO Talk leads the mobile messaging market in Korea and has recently expanded into games and social commerce. KAKAO started its game service last year, with over US$37 million in revenues...