Namco Bandai to release Dark Souls 2 worldwide
Namco Bandai has confirmed global release dates for the upcoming sequel to Japanese developer From Software's hit title Dark Souls.
Dark Souls 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360 will go on...
Australian Andrew Wilson to lead EA
Australia's Andrew Wilson has been confirmed as new CEO of Electronic Arts. Wilson has been EA Sports' executive vice president, and also formerly led EA's Origin digital distribution platform.
"When I think...
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...
Spike Chunsoft to release Attack on Titan for 3DS in Japan
Spike Chunsoft has confirmed that the company will publish Shingeki no Kyojin: Jinrui Saigo no Tsubasa for Nintendo 3DS in Japan. The game is based on the popular Japanese manga and...
Sega to purchase Atlus parent Index
Sega Sammy has confirmed that the company has established a subsidiary, Sega Dream Corporation, to acquire the assets of Index Corporation, the bankrupt parent company of Japanese developer and publisher Atlus,...
Sega to partner with Nexon in Japan for MapleStory 3DS
Sega will work with Nexon to publish MapleStory: The Girl's Fate on Nintendo's 3DS in Japan.
The Japanese 3DS version of the popular MMORPG will be released in 2014. Further overseas releases...
Nintendo shares fall on exclusion from Nikkei 255
Nintendo's steepest share price fall in two years occurred yesterday after the company failed to place in the Nikkei 255 Stock Average listings, against analyst expectations.
The game publisher's stock fell more...
Phantasy Star Nova coming to PS Vita
Sega announced at Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's press conference yesterday that Tri-Ace's RPG Phantasy Star Nova will be coming to the PS Vita platform next year.
Sega also announced that the game...
Sony to end new PS Home content in Asia next year
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that new content delivery for PlayStation 3 Home service in the Asian region will terminate next year.
PlayStation Home is a user community service that includes...
PvZ 2 surpasses 25 million global downloads 2 weeks from launch
EA owned social game developer PopCap Games has announced that downloads of the newly released F2P iOS sequel to the company's hit title Plants vs. Zombies have already exceeded total downloads...
Tencent to publish F2P title from US dev Hi-Rez in China
Leading online entertainment and game publisher Tencent has announced a distribution partnership with US studio Hi-Rez to localise and distribute the developer's F2P MOBA title Smite in China.
Hi-Rez co-founder Todd Harris...
Online games push Perfect World earnings up 13.5 per cent
Perfect World announced second quarter revenues of 708.5 million RMB (US$115.4 million), up 13.5 per cent and exceeding analysts’ expectations.
The quarter’s key growth sector was online games, with earnings of 650.1...
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...
Tencent posts stable results, messaging and games growth
Tencent reported second quarter revenues of 14.385 billion RMB (US$2.328 billion), up 36.6 per cent year on year. However operating profits fell for the period to 4.565 billion RMB (US$738.8 million),...
Nexon posts record sales, beats forecasts
Nexon, with headquarters in Japan, reported record earnings for the second quarter of 36.624 billion JPY, up 60 per cent from last year. The company's operating profits also rose 21 per...
Gamania earnings top record, PSO 2 for 2014
Taiwanese developer and publisher Gamania reported first half revenues of NT$4.021 billion, an increase of 10 per cent year on year and a half year record high.
The company also announced...
Namco Bandai’s quarter mixed, game earnings stable
Namco Bandai released their first quarter results recording sales of 105.8 billion JPY, down 2.6 per cent year on year, with quarterly operating profits down 17.4 per cent at 13.3 billion...
Giant Interactive’s revenues up 11.3 per cent
Chinese game developer and publisher Giant Interactive announced second quarter revenues of 588.1 million RMB (US$95.8 million), an increase of 2.7 per cent from the previous quarter and a rise of...
Marvelous AQL reports strong sales, revises forcasts up
Japanese game and anime producer Marvelous AQL reported first quarter revenues of 4.4 billion JPY, up 46.2 per cent year on year. The company also revised its operating profit forecast up...
Mobile and web games in Asia lift Square Enix’ results
Square Enix today reported a first quarter deficit of 493 million JPY (circa US$5 million), a year on year improvement from losses of 2.01 billion JPY (circa US$21 million) recorded last...
