‘We Are The Dwarves’ Will Release In February For PC In Asia
‘We Are The Dwarves’ is a new action-RPG with an unique setting and story. Opposite to the real Universe we know, everything is inverted here: the void is replaced by endless stone, where life exists only in gigantic caves enlightened by bright Stars. These Stars...
Sohu.com: Online Game Revenue in 2015 Down 2% Compared With 2014
China's leading online media, search, gaming, community and mobile service group, Sohu.com Inc., reported this week unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2015. Total revenues were USD 1.9 Billion, up 16% compared with 2014, a new high in...
Chinese Linekong Turns To Global Market Opportunities And Invests USD 20 Million In US Subsidiary
Chinese mobile gaming company Linekong Interactive announced that the company is investing USD 20 Million to expand its presence in the global mobile game market by establishing a western arm, Linekong US, Inc. This investment will help Linekong US establish partnerships and achieve its...
iCandy Is Set To Be The First Mobile Games Company To IPO From Southeast Asia
Malaysia-headquartered mobile games studio iCandy Interactive Limited, en route to listing on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in two weeks, has completed the capital raising for it initial public offering (IPO). The IPO was oversubscribed by 92 per cent above its minimum capital raising requirement,...
Capcom’s Financial Results 2015
Capcom has published positive financial results for the nine-month period between April 1 and December 31, 2015, with net revenue increasing by 19.3 percent to ¥57 billion during the year. The publisher attributed its positive financial performance to growth in the mobile segment, profitable digital...
37Games Receives Top Developer Badge From Google
Chinese browser and mobile game company 37Games has received a Top Developer Badge on the Google Play Store, an award that recognizes developers that have a well established reputation and that have launched innovative and high quality apps.
Since 2012, when 37Games first expanded outside...
Adways Invested In Singapore-Based Game Developer Daylight Studios
Tokyo based Adways Inc announced it has invested in Singapore-based game developer, Daylight Studios, Pte. Ltd. as well as partnering with its wholly-owned subsidiary, Quest Drop Pte. Ltd., a mobile games publisher, operator, and service provider in Southeast Asia. This partnership is aimed at...
Digi-Capital: Games To Grow From USD 90B In 2016 To USD 115B By 2020
The games market continues its transition, with leaders consolidating their positions as the balance of power shifts across sectors. The coming years could be both “steady as she goes” for some, and a rollercoaster (up and down) for others. Games software revenue could grow...
Chinese Investors Bring The Cash, Japanese Developers Supply The Fun
Japan's smartphone game industry, now estimated to be worth around 700 billion yen ($5.72 billion), is showing signs of maturing. At the same time, the cost of developing games has been soaring, due to the advance of smartphone technology according to a reports from...
Capcom To Combine Japan And US Mobile Operations
Capcom will consolidate its U.S. and Japanese smartphone game businesses, with the aim of helping the company develop hit titles according to a report from Nikkei Asian Review. The Osaka-based company will appoint Midori Yuasa, a corporate officer serving as CEO of U.S. unit Beeline...
New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game’s trailer Is Out
PlatinumGames has just released the trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan.
You might know PlatinumGames as the independent studio founded by a group of star employees from Capcom, including Shinji Mikami and Hideki Kamiya, creators of the Resident Evil and Devil May...
Philippine Accelerator IdeaSpace Will No Longer Take Equity In Startups
Startup accelerators are now a fixture in the tech world. With little or no resources, founders turn to accelerators for mentorship, office space, connections, and funding, hoping to transform their idea into the next multi-million-dollar company. Accelerators are meant to advance a startup’s growth,...
Thailand’s Mobile Games Market Will Reach US$ 211 Million in 2016
With 60,000 mobile developers, Thailand's mobile app market is ranked third in Southeast Asia, only behind Indonesia and Vietnam. Applift, a mobile app marketing platform, forecasts that Thailand's mobile games market will reach US$211 million this year and increase to $300 million in 2017, up...
Kids’ Digital And Mobile Behaviour In ASEAN
A new research report on digital media activities in of 6-14 kids in Southeast Asia from SuperAwesome Insights gives a comprehensive picture of kids’ media consumption habits across the main ASEAN markets including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam (The research involved 1,800 kids aged...
Tokyo VR Startups Launched Incubation Fund Program With Industry Leading Virtual Reality Mentors
Tokyo VR Startups (TVS) has launched an incubation program focused on the Japanese virtual reality (VR) market. In this program, Japan-based startup companies will be invited to develop prototypes of VR products and services for six months (January to June 2016) for potential future...
Singapore’s MDA And IDA Will Be Restructured To Form IMDA
The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) and the Media Development Authority (MDA) will be restructured into two new entities: The Infocommunications Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Government Technology Organisation (GTO), announced Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim yesterday according to ChannelNewsAsia...
Sony Taipei Game Show Stage Schedule for 2016 Revealed
While it is some months far off from the next E3, PlayStation fans don’t have to wait for E3, as the Taipei Game Show will happen later this month. While the Taipei Game Show is not as big as E3, gamescom or Tokyo Game...
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 fans with brand news ideas, instead of building on the old ideas. Kimishima...
Japanese Top Games 2015
Japanese game magazine Famitsu has published a list of the best selling games for 2015 in Japan. Not entirely unexpected either is that the majority of the games are from Nintendo and Nintendo's dominance in the Japanese market.
Most of the games from Nintendo are for...
The Hour Of Code Was Back in Asia!
The Hour of Code aims to get millions of students around the world to try just one hour of coding during the annual US Computer Science Education Week. The simplest of ideas has snowballed into a runaway success, reaching tens of millions of students...
