Nexon Unveils New Blockbuster Mobile Game Heroes of Incredible Tales
Nexon, Korea's largest game company, showcased the new mobile game titled "Heroes of Incredible Tales (HIT)," on Monday. HIT, which is the biggest action mobile role-playing game project for Nexon, faces fierce competition from Korea's top mobile game firm, Netmarble Games, and their game, Idea,...
Basics of How To Monetize a Mobile Game in China
China is regarded as a leader in F2P, with consumers unwilling to pay upfront for games. This all started with the famous Chinese console ban. With no consoles, gamers turned to online games, filling up Internet cafes. So instead of paying US$26 for new...
DeNA Releases a New Spin on Pinball With Rob And Roll
DeNA released today Rob And Roll, a casual pinball game that puts a new spin on the classic arcade game. With a familiar look and feel, but fresh new gameplay elements, Rob And Roll takes players on an exciting adventure as they travel through colorful...
NetEase Way To Mobile Games
NetEase launched in 1997 as an e-mail and search-engine operation. It was an early entrant into the "massively multiplayer online role-playing games" (MMORPG) market, launching its "Westward Journey Online" in December 2001. At a time when China stocks have largely, for now, fallen by the...
Why Russian IT Companies Are Moving To Asia
East Asia is the third-largest market for Russian-origin IT companies after the U.S. and the Commonwealth of Independent States, according to experts. Climatic conditions, a growing middle class and cheaper overheads are attracting Russian companies to Asia. A growing number of Russian-origin information technology...
Testbird will be Present at Game Connection Europe
TestBird, China’s leading app testing service, will be presenting the issues in entering the Chinese game industry during Game Connection Europe 2015 this month. The talk will briefly discuss the many challenges that western companies face when entering China for the first time. “We...
Singapore as a Key Hub for Japanese Game Companies
Japanese game-makers looking to export their unique brand of entertainment overseas and reach a global workforce have identified Singapore as a major gateway reported Singapore´s Strait Times today. Building on their past successes, Koei Tecmo, Bandai Namco and gumi Asia are aggressively hiring in...
Meet Gerald Tock – CEO of Inzen Studio Singapore
Gerald is CEO at Inzen Studio, a mobile game company that seeks to create new play experiences for audiences worldwide through their constant study of innovation and culture. Inzen's founding five met at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, where they established a unique eye...
Meet GMGC´s Business Development Head, Teddy Florea
In November the Global Mobile Game Confederation (GMGC) host their next event in China (Chengdu), the Mobile Game Developers Conference. IGA.biz spoke with one of the main business driver behind GMGC, Teddy Florea. Recently Teddy took over from Maxim de Witt, who left GMC...
Hideo Kojima Has Left Konami
The New Yorker reported that Hideo Kojima’s time with Konami and Kojima Productions has come to an end, as he left the company he’s been with for over 29 years earlier this month. According to guests that attended Hideo Kojima’s departure ceremony, it was...
PLAYe is Revolutionizing how People Play Games with 3-in-1 Online-Mobile-Offline Platform
PLAYe, a 3-in-1 online-mobile-offline (OMO) platform that will transform the way games and collectibles will be marketed, distributed and consumed in Singapore and the region was released in August.
“Is there a better way of delivering value to the end-user?" This is a question that...
37Games Investing 100 Million USD in Its “Rising Dragon” Plan
37Games, a Chinese top 30 internet company, recently acquired SNK Playmore, one of the most renowned Japanese game companies. Now 37Games has started its overseas investing plan called "Rising Dragon," investing 100 million dollars in game studios all over the world to expand its worldwide market share. While...
Asiasoft Announced its New Mobile RPG “Pocket MapleStory” For SEA Region
Asiasoft announced that its new mobile RPG Pocket MapleStory is going to be launched on Southeast Asia countries including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Philippines. The game will be published through Asiasoft's games platform, and will be available for both iOS and Android devices.
As one...
Nintendo Introduces A Software Development Kit For Its New NX Videogame Platform
While The Wall Street Journal is reporting on Nintendo’s upcoming handheld/console, code named “Project NX,” word of Nintendo’s new Developer Portal rose to the surface. Introduction of the portal is especially interesting given Nintendo’s track record regarding third-party developers and the general lack thereof....
Square Enix Has Announced Its Lineup For Paris Games Week
Square Enix has announced its line-up for the upcoming Paris Games Week. Making appearances at the event will be Final Fantasy 15 and the follow-up to Nier, along with titles like the recent Dragon Quest Heroes and Just Cause 3.
A press release from the publisher lists...
Facebook Appointed Kenneth Bishop To Lead Southeast Asia As Managing Director
Facebook has appointed Kenneth Bishop as managing director for Southeast Asia. Bishop, who has been with the social networking giant since 2011, moves from a role as head of marketing for Facebook Asia Pacific. He will continue to be based in Singapore. He replaces...
Former Unity Executive Helps Grow Cloud-Based Game Development Startup
MaxPlay, a game development technology and services company, announced that John Goodale has joined the company as Vice President of Platform Business Development. Goodale, well-known for his success in developing comprehensive, long-term partnerships across Asia, will be responsible for building a global sales team and...
A.Storm and KOG Games Partner To Bring Popular MMORPG HeroWarz to North America and Beyond
KOG Games (CEO Eugene Kim), a leading publisher of popular free-to-play action MMORPG’s, and A.Storm (CEO Kim Yoon Jong), a leading Korean game developer, announced today that the two companies have signed a service contract to bring the popular MMORPG HeroWarz to every gamer...
Nintendo and DeNA’s First Mobile Game Coming Soon
Venturebeat is reporting that information on the first game from Nintendo and DeNA’s mobile collaboration will be released “soon”, according to DeNA West CEO Shintaro Asako. What that game will be still remains a mystery, with the vast range of Nintendo properties it could...
NetEase Licensed Game Million Arthur Hits #5 iOS Grossing
With Fantasy Westward Journey and Westward Journey Online steady at #1 and #2, NetEase' cooperation with Square Enix for Kai-Ri-Sei Million Arthur continues to highlight its publishing strength, according to a post on Linkedin from NetEase Head of Mobile Business Development, Tom van Dam.
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