Capcom Game Studio Vancouver Teams Up With Epic Games
Capcom confirmed that Capcom Game Studio Vancouver, the development studio behind the acclaimed Dead Rising franchise, will begin working with Epic Games to utilize Unreal Engine 4 for its upcoming projects. More details on these as yet unannounced future games will be available at...
MOL Partners With Sony Computer Entertainment For Southeast Asia
MOL AccessPortal (MOL), the operating company of MOL Global (MOLG), has entered into a partnership with Sony’s division which operates PlayStation® business in Asia, to provide MOLPoints as a payment option for consumers to top-up their PlayStation®Network (PSN) account in order to purchase online games...
Axial Brain Launched Tap Alice
The Singapore based indie developer studio Axial Brain, maker of Monster Treasure Adventure, has launched its new game Tap Alice. Tap Alice is a casual puzzle game and the first title of their “Tap Series" for Facebook.
The goal is to create a game for...
China’s Online Gaming Industry Powering Up By Around 30 Percent Annually
China now is the biggest online gaming market in the world, surpassing USA and Japan. The revenue of China's online gaming sector kept growing by around 30 percent annually in the past eight years, according to data revealed by the Ministry of Culture last...
Sony Is Trying To Trademark The Term “Let’s Play”
Let’s play? More like “Let’s Play™,” if Sony has their way. The maker of PlayStation has filed for a trademark on the gaming term. Let’s Play, in case you’re completely out of the loop, is what a lot of YouTubers title their campaigns through...
Perfect World Returns To Chinese Equity Markets
Perfect World announced a $1.8 billion deal that would make it the latest in a wave of Chinese companies returning home after giving up on the U.S. stock market. Under the agreement, Shenzhen-listed Perfect World Pictures Co. will buy all the assets of an...
Amazon Web Services Launches Korean Datacenters for Its Cloud Computing Platform
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced the launch of the Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region, its fifth technology infrastructure region in Asia Pacific (APAC). Starting today, Korean-based businesses and global companies with customers in Korea can leverage AWS’s industry leading infrastructure technology...
Square Enix Closed Cloud Gaming Platform
Yesterday Square Enix announced the closure of their cloud based gaming platform, Shinra Technologies, through a statement on its website. The website of Shinra shut down this morning.
The company had been formed in 2014 with the goal of building a cloud-gaming platform with supercomputer-class...
Studios From New Zealand And Australia Are Selected As Finalists For The Independent Games Festival Awards 2016
The Independent Games Festival (IGF) judges have announced the lists of finalists for the esteemed 18th annual awards, which honors the most influential, innovative and exemplary projects in independent game development. Studios from Australia, New Zealand
After an initial round of judging by over 400 evaluators,...
Korea’s Leading Game Companies Plan To Be More Present Globally
Nexon, Netmarble Games and Ncsoft have announced to expand their presence in the global market and the mobile sector in 2016.
Nexon, the Korea's largest game company, said yesterday it will focus more on the mobile game business, based on its capability in the online...
Kaga Create No Longer In Business and Shut Down Business
Another Japanese game developer Kaga Create, publisher of games like Saki: The Nationals and Higurashi When They Cry Sui, shut its doors on the last day of last year, 2015, according to an announcement of the company.
The company said in that statement it was not...
Rovio Teams Up With NHN Studio629 For Asian Markets
Rovio and NHN Studio629 announced a partnership to develop a new game using the Angry Birds IP, initially targeting players in Korea and selected other Asian markets. Due for launch later in 2016, the game will bring together the characters of Angry Birds with...
Grand Finals of WCA Draws Global Attention
The World Cyber Arena (WCA) 2015 grand finals, which was hosted by Yinchuan International Game Investment Co. Ltd, started on December 17 in Yinchuan, China. It is an international eSports event showing Chinese eSports dreams to the world. 512 gamers from 32 countries are...
Cheetah Mobile Enters New Strategic Agreement with Tencent
Cheetah Mobile Inc. announced it has entered into a new strategic cooperation agreement with Shenzhen Tencent Computer Systems Company Limited (Tencent Shenzhen), a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings Limited (Tencent), for the two-year period from January 2016 until December 2017.
Under the terms of the new agreement, Cheetah...
NetEase Introduced its 2016 Pipeline of Games
Internet and online game services providers NetEase, Inc. announced that it unveiled 26 new mobile and PC-client games. The Company's new games slated for release will include 14 RPG and ARPG games that will primarily be self-developed, along with select licensed games.
Building on the tremendous...
Global Mobile Game Congress 2016 Revealed Theme & Topics
The mobile game market is growing rapidly and advancing to a brand new stage. With the evolution of technology, the mobile game industry is innovating, accelerating and expanding at the same point, converging deeply with the digital entertainment industry including literature, animation, movie/TV, and...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
We will be back in 2016 with more news, reports and updates on the Asian Games Industry.
Good Start For Boomzap’s Legends of Callasia at Kickstarter and Greenlight
Known for casual games, Southeast Asian virtual game studio Boomzap Entertainment is now making its entry to the strategy games market with its game Legends of Callasia.
Legends of Callasia (formerly known as Legends of Fire & Steel) is a simultaneous turn-based single and multiplayer...
Star Chef – India’s Most Successful Mobile Game
India's most successful mobile game is not being developed in a gaming studio in Bengaluru or Mumbai, but in the coastal town of Udupi in Karnataka according to a report at Economictimes India. Star Chef, a mobile social game developed by 99Games, has crossed...
