MapleStory 2 To Kick Off Closed Beta In China In April
After Tencent announced to partner with Nexon to publish MapleStory 2 in China, most Chinese gamers have been looking forward to this game for a long time. The wait is finally coming to an end now, as Tencent finally set the first beta date...
Animoca Brands Signs Agreement with Tencent For Groove Planet
Animoca Brands Corporation Limited announced it has entered into an agreement with Tencent to distribute in China one of the company’s mobile games across Tencent’s Android versions of Weixin and Mobile QQ platforms, and the Tencent App Store.
Groove Planet is a music mobile game developed by...
Forgame Announces FY2015 Annual Results
Forgame a leading developer and publisher of mobile games and webgames in China, announced its annual results for the year ended 31 December 2015. The Group continues to gain traction in expanding its mobile gaming operation as the Company almost doubled its mobile games...
Mobile Gaming Market In Asia Emerging With Social Games
As smartphone penetration continues to skyrocket, social casino gaming on mobile devices is a growing market with huge potential although competition is fierce, Jamison Selby, Vice President of Games at b Spot said at iGaming Asia Congress which kicked off yesterday. “We need to...
Jagex Bought By China’s Shandong Hongda
Chinese iron ore mining company Shandong Hongda has fully acquired for $300 million Jagex Ltd, the largest independent games developer and publisher in the United Kingdom. Shandong is a listed ferrous metal mining industry firm with headquarters in Shanghai, China. It produces iron powder, copper...
Chinese Youzu acquires German Bigpoint
Chinese games company Youzu plans to buy German Bigpoint GmbH for up to 80 million Euros ($89.68 million) according to reports at Youzu and Reuters.
Established in 2009, Youzu Interactive is a global entertainment company specializing in game development and distribution. In June 2014, Youzu Interactive was...
Growing Popularity Of Blade & Soul Mobile Game In China
South Korea’s leading online game developer NC Soft is enjoying an upswing in its share price on robust sales of mobile games in China that propelling the company`s overall growth according to a report at pulsenews. Blade & Soul Mobile, a mobile game the company...
360 Games Launched SUPER360° Strategy To Help Game Developers Enter Chinese Market
360 Games, one of the leading Chinese game platforms and publisher, announced that it has launched a series of innovative initiatives to attract global game developers to China. The initiatives include the formation of the Super360° Strategy, a mobile ad revenue return plan and 360...
Tencent: 33 Percent Increase In Online Game Revenue In 4Q / 2015
China's Tencent Holding witnessed a huge 45 percent revenue increase in 4Q, surpassing the estimates of analyst by 10 percent. In the same vein, it also reported missed income in terms of investments in video and other types of content. To start things off, Tencent CEO...
PlayStation Virtual Reality Gear To Launch In October
Sony plans to make virtual reality mainstream with the October release of PlayStation VR headgear priced at $399. “Virtual reality represents a new frontier for gaming, one that will forever change the way users interact with games,” Sony Computer Entertainment Chief Executive Andrew House said...
Tencent bought the rights to more than 300 Japanese anime franchises
Tencent bought the rights to more than 300 Japanese anime franchises and cultivated others at home with a plan to parlay them into multimedia juggernauts according to a report at Chicago Tribune. The creator of WeChat and QQ intends to generate revenue in several...
Malaysia at GDC 2016 – Interview with MDeC’s Hasnul Hadi Samsudin
A trade mission of several top companies in the Malaysian games industry are making the trip from Kuala Lumpur to participate in the Games Developers Conference (GDC) this week. InsideGamesAsia.biz had the chance to talk to the Director of the Creative Content and Technologies Division (CCT) at...
Kunlun Tech Invests To Form AI Joint Venture
Chinese online PC and mobile game developer and operator Kunlun Technology recently announced that it will invest USD 3 million to establish a joint venture named Kunlun AI (Kunlun Artificial Intelligence Technology Company). 100 mln shares will be issued in total, of which 15%...
Universal Studios Japan To Host Nintendo Attraction
A section created in collaboration with Nintendo at Osaka’s Universal Studios theme park is to open in time for the 2020 Olympic Games. The Nintendo-themed attraction is intended to at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, which welcomed 12.7 million visitors last year.
Nintendo has been looking at...
Baofeng Stakes Growth Through Gaming Companies
Baofeng.com, an online entertainment firm listed on the Nasdaq-like ChiNext board, will spend 3.1 billion yuan (US$477 million) to acquire three firms to expand its business into game, film and overseas markets.
Using a mixture of shares and cash, Baofeng will use 1.08 billion yuan...
Nexon Group to Acquire Mobile Game Developer Big Huge Games
Nexon announced that it will acquire DomiNations developer Big Huge Games, the independent studio founded by Civilization and Rise of Nations designer Brian Reynolds and Tim Train. Nexon, specifically its Nexon Korea subsidiary, has entered into an agreement to buy all of Big Huge...
Singapore Should Impose GST On Online Service Incl. Games
As more people play or shop online, some experts have said Singapore should start imposing Goods and Services Tax (GST) on such transactions, since the online market is worth nearly S$5 billion a year. A tax on the digital economy is being considered by many...
Square Enix Announces Panels And Talks For GDC 2016
Square Enix announced its panel lineup for GDC (Games Developers Conference) 2016, taking place in San Francisco, March 14-18, 2016. This year, featured talks from the company’s world class list of developers will provide in-depth discussions on game development from critically acclaimed titles, such...
Amazon Japan Starts To Sell Games Internationally
That is a pleasant and unexpected surprise. Via some brave testers at NeoGAF, Amazon Japan has quietly begun allowing customers from outside the country to buy its video games according to a report at Kotaku.
What does this mean for most of you? Not much! But...
Gowth Of Mobile Games In Southeast Asia Is Slowing
Southeast Asia may be the world’s leading market for mobile games, but the market is showing signs of becoming more sluggish due to oversaturation. While more people in this region have been purchasing smartphones, the number of big-name mobile games has reached a point...
