iDreamSky – One Of The Biggest Player In China’s Mobile Gaming Market
There is a huge demand for mobile gaming in the Asian economic powerhouse. The mobile gaming market in China is worth close to USD 8 billion. With technology and creative minds driving the industry's immense success, consumers are spending more of their leisure time playing...
Seeing The Chinese Game Market Through NetEase
As an international industry, China shares numerous features with the global game market from market structure to brand preference. Just as Supercell and King that take 45% of the America market, 60% of the Chinese game market is occupied by two major game companies:...
CEO of Malaysia Digital Economy Corp (MDeC): The Reality of Today’s Digital Economy
"The digital economy is not simply an aspect of the real economy. It is one of the key underlying aspects of the real economy that acts as both driver and catalyst. This it achieves through the leverage of technology which cuts across all industries,...
Youzu Interactive, Buyer of Bigpoint, to Continue Exploring Chinese Game Market
The Shanghai-based game company Youzu Interactive, that has gained wide attention from industry insiders both in China and worldwide since the announcement of its full acquisition of the German game developer Bigpoint, recently revealed that the company will continue to focus on the Chinese...
Wang Sicong Leads USD 7.7 Million Series A Round In Gaming Peripherals Startup
Prometheus Capital (Pusi Capital), founded by the son of Asia's richest man Wang Jianlin, has reportedly led a RM B50 million (USD 7.7 million) series A round of investment in Taidu Technology, a Chinese Gaming Peripherals Maker, according to Chinese media reports.
Wang Sicong, the son of...
Piano Tile 2 Has Become The World’s Most Popular Mobile Game
Piano Title 2 (Don’t Tap the White Tile 2) has become the world’s most popular mobile game, beating Candy Crush and Clash Royale, the first-quarter ranking of mobile apps by Sensor Tower shows. The app has been downloaded by more than 160 million people.
The original...
Virtual Reality to Generate USD 2.3 Billion in Revenue This Year
US market research company IDC (International Data Corporation) has identified that virtual reality would generate $2.3 billion in revenue this year in the global market.
While VR has driven much of the recent hype, primarily with consumers and in a gaming context, AR will experience more rapid...
Vietnam Online Gaming Market – Outlook to 2019
The Vietnam e commerce market has enhanced at a tremendous growth rate, yet the size of online gaming market is still minute owing to the fact that a large part of population does not have access to the speedy Internet service. During 2011-2014, the...
Netmarble Launched New Mobile Game ‘Stone Age’
South Korea’s Netmarble launched Stone Age, a new mobile role-playing game, on Tuesday in Seoul. The newly released game features a fictitious, prehistoric world where people resist against industrial revolutions. It is based on a PC online game of the same title, released by Japanese...
Bandai Namco: Dark Souls 3 Is The Most Successful Launch
Bandai Namco announced that the game is its most successful title launch to date, and that sales were "incredibly strong" in its first week, making it the fastest-selling game in the company's history.
Dark Souls 3 released on March 24 in Japan, and followed that...
Smart And PLDT Sponsor Philippines eSports Team For ESL One
Team Mineski.Sports5 will be representing the Philippines in the biggest eSports tourney in Southeast Asia, ESL One Manila 2016. Online gamers from across the world will gather in Manila April 23 / 24 for Southeast Asia's DOTA 2 tournament.
The Philippine team is sponsored by...
UK Based Climax Studios Has Opened A New Studio In New Zealand
Climax Studios, the Portsmouth based UK developer and VR publisher, has opened a new studio in Auckland, New Zealand. The team consists of eight members all of whom are coders who worked at the recently closed Gameloft studio. The new Climax studio is headed up...
Pokemon Comaster Launched On Google Play In Japan
Pokemon Comaster mobile game has officially launched in Japan, available on the Google Play Store.
Pokemon Comaster is a strategy game whereby players are required to collect and do battle with a variety of different Pokemon. If you haven't seen the game before, check out...
Mobile Game Developer Youzu Plans To Partner An Electric Vehicle Maker
After China’s largest search-engine provider and the owner of the country’s fastest growing online sports company made separate forays into self-driving cars in China, a mobile games developer has just joined the party according to a report at BloombergTechnology.
Youzu Interactive Co., who recently acquired...
Malaysia’ s MDEC Sees High Investment Growth From MSC Companies
Despite global economic challenges, Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC), formerly known as Multimedia Development Corporation recorded significant growth in investments and export sales from MSC Malaysia companies in 2015. As the lead agency responsible for driving Malaysia's digital economy, MDEC registered a growth of 56...
Chinese Actor Hu Ge Signs With NetEase As Celebrity Endorser Of Westward Journey
NetEase has signed Chinese actor and idol Hu Ge as a celebrity endorser for its smash hit game, Westward Journey.
Hu Ge has been a phenomenon in China since 2005 when he played the leading role of Li Xiaoyao in the 2005 television series Chinese...
YouTube Gaming App Now Available In SE Asia
YouTube's gaming platform on which gamers connect with each other through videos and live streams is available in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and other countries via web and mobile app on iOS and Android. The official website currently has more than 25,000 games, each with its own page...
Nazara Games co-invests with London Venture Partners & Supercell’s game lead into TrulySocial
India's premier mobile game developing and publishing company Nazara Games announced the investment in TrulySocial, a London-based mobile games studio. Other key gaming investors like London Venture Partners and Drussila Hollanda-Grönberg, Game Lead at Supercell are co-investors.
TrulySocial led by Salone Sehgal and Sebastian Coman,...
Matomy Expands Into APAC With Offices in South Korea
Matomy Media Group opens its office in Seoul to meet the advertising needs of the world's 4th largest mobile gaming market. Seunghyun Ryan Kim, Matomy Korea General Manager, will lead the Seoul office with Nadav Trenter Moser spearheading sales and business development for APAC.
"South...
Ragnarok Online Sees its Apocalyptic World in Thailand Ended
Ragnarok Online, once very popular MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game) in Thailand will see its apocalyptic virtual world in Thailand ended on June 30, Asiasoft Corporation Plc announced.
Asiasoft said the online game service will have to be officially ended at the end of...
