Square Enix announces new mobile F2P Final Fantasy game
Square Enix has announced a new F2P Final Fantasy RPG for iOS and Android. The mobile title, Final Fantasy Agito, is scheduled for release in Japan this winter.
Game director Hajime Tabata...
Ubisoft Aims To Launch A Mobile Assassin’s Creed MMORPG In China
Ubisoft and Chinese mobile game publisher Ourpalm have come to an agreement that will see the pair collaborating on a mobile MMORPG for China based on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed franchise.
The fact...
37Games Teams Up with Chinese Media Giants to Diversify Its Product Line
37Games (officially Sanqi Interactive Entertainment) one of the top ten Chinese gaming company, held a conference to announce its plans for the coming months. 37Games has already acquired the adaptation rights of...
Amazon Snuggling Up To Japan’s Game Developers
Amazon will hold a three-day event here starting today to forge closer ties with Japanese developers of games for smartphones. Some 90 executives from Amazon bases around the world, including the U.S., Europe...
eSports Companies are Attracting Venture Capital and being Targeted for Acquisition
"eSports, also known as competitive gaming, has a global audience of 134 million. Twitch, Azubu, and Dingit are streaming live video game competitions to that audience, and investors want a piece...
Digital Bros (505 Games) To Launch Terraria In China with iDreamsky
Digital Bros., a digital entertainment company listed at the Milan Stock Exchange, through its subsidiary 505 Games S.p.A., announced that it has assigned the exclusive rights to Chinese iDreamSky Technology to launch...
Ubisoft: ‘The Division’ Goes To Hollywood – Jessica Chastain And Jake Gyllenhaal To Star
'The Division' is coming to the big screen. The battle to restore order to Manhattan is being made into a movie by Ubisoft Motion Pictures, and will star Jessica Chastain (Interstellar,...
Capcom abandons takeover defence
Capcom has announced that the Japanese publisher’s six year-old takeover defence, designed to block third parties from acquiring a controlling stake in the company, will not be renewed.
Capcom instated the countermeasure...
Android makes more money than iOS
Accepted wisdom and research tells us that iOS makes more money than Google Play, despite Google Play having more downloads. Nobody would argue with that. But what about iOS vs Android...
New Circular on Online Games in Vietnam in February 2015
After a long period of tightening control and a temporary suspension of licensing of online games in Vietnam, the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) has put forward a new Circular...
Nintendo President Reveals 2016 Plans
Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima recently talked about his plans for Nintendo for the year 2016 in the Japanese news paper Mainichi Shimbun.
First up, he stated that he wants to surprise Nintendo...
Lufia, HM 2 confirmed for NVC
Japanese publisher Natsume has announced that the Game Boy Color titles Lufia: The Legend Returns and Harvest Moon 2 will be re-released for Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console later this year.
Lufia: The...
‘Sword Art Online’ Release Dates For Europe & North America
Publisher Bandai Namco has announced that "Re: Hollow Fragment" and "Lost Song," two titles based on the anime and manga series "Sword Art Online", will be making it to North American and...
Overseas release for Freedom Wars
Sony has confirmed that Freedom Wars, due for release in Japan for Sony PlayStation Vita on 26 June, will also launch overseas later in 2014.
The sci-fi action adventure title will include...
Bigpoint Accelerates Asian Expansion with former Riot and CJ Netmarble Director
Bigpoint, a leading online game developer and publisher, is expanding its Asian presence with a general manager for its Korean office. The new Country Manager for South Korea will be former...
Konami’s sales and profits decline in a quiet period
With no major releases in the first financial quarter, Konami reported revenues for the period of 45.6 million JPY, down 7.2 per cent year on year, and operating profits of 1.5...
Shanda Games’ shareholders offer US$1.9B for private buyout
Chinese online publisher Shanda Games has been offered a US$1.9 billion buyout proposal from the publically traded company's major shareholders to take the firm private.
The offer was made by Shanda Interactive...
SQEX confirms FF X and X-2 HD PS Vita release overseas
Square Enix has announced that the PlayStation Vita HD versions of the popular Final Fantasy X and X-2 titles will launch overseas on the same dates as the upcoming PlayStation 3/PlayStation...
Short Peace adaption gets overseas release
Bandai Namco has announced that Rinko Tsukigime's Longest Day, based on the Short Peace animated film series, has launched in Australia, Europe and North America for Sony PlayStation 3.
Rinko Tsukigime's Longest...
Rosh Online coming to Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam
Chinese online game developer Galaxy Gate has announced that the company's popular F2P MMORPG Rosh Online will be expanding into Southeast Asia, with contracts recently signed for the game's distribution in...
