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Ski Safari 2 Now Available for Android Devices

Ski Safari 2's zany zoo of characters and high-flying stunts are now freely available on Google Play for Android phones and tablets.  The original  Ski Safari has more than 140 million downloads since its release. Ski Safari 2 offers an addictive casual gaming experience bringing...

Adways China launched native ad network Blue Bee Native

Adways China announced a launch of CPM based native ad network Blue Bee Native in China. Blue Bee Native was co-developed by Adways China and Hitokuse. Blue Bee Native is a CPM based ad network specialized for native ads. This serves as a new type...

Inside Games Asia Forum Unveils A Top Speaker´s Line-up For 2015

The 2015 Inside Games Asia Forum, organized by International Business Media Pte. Ltd., the publisher of the leading B2B Games Industry Source “InsideGamesAsia.biz”, is Asia’s most important visionary game industry event. Inside Games Asia Forum features forward-looking keynotes and panels on game industry trends...

KICK9 Recipient of Red Herring Top 100 Asia Award

Mobile game publisher KICK9 Inc., was selected as the "Red Herring Asia 2015 Top 100 Enterprise" winners. The award was presented by well-known international business investment magazine "Red Herring (Red Herring)" in recognition of the leading private companies in Asia. Red Herring 100 awards...

G-Star Seeks Rebound With Mobile Games As The Number Of Exhibitors For 2015 Dropped Down

G-Star, the Korea's largest international game show, will expand the presence of mobile games at its exhibition, the event's organizing committee said yesterday. The move came amid the dwindling popularity of personal computer-based online games, negatively affecting the growth of the global game show's...

Komik Kon Malaysia Will Make Its Debut In November 2015

Malaysia will have its own version of Comic Con in November. Komik Kon will be held at MAEPS Serdang. The fiesta aims to be an annual event for comic lovers, cosplayers, collectors, movie buffs, gamers, artists and animators — be it local or international...

Tencent Partners with Legendary Pictures for ‘Warcraft’

Tencent Pictures, the motion picture arm of Chinese online company Tencent Holdings Ltd., has announced a partnership with Legendary Pictures involving investing an equity stake in "Warcraft," the film adaptation of the popular real-time strategy game of the same name, as well as the...

Netmarble´s Mobile RPG Seven Knights to be Launched Globally This Year

Netmarble Games announced that its RPG 'Seven Knights' will launch globally for iOS and Android this year. Seven Knights, which debuted in Korea last year and has consistently held a top five spot on the Google Play Store – reaching #1 in September 2014 and remaining in...

NetEase Games Wildly Popular at Tokyo Game Show 2015

On September 17th, Chinese publisher NetEase Games, kicked off the Tokyo Game Show 2015 with its strong mobile game line-up, including Kung Fu Panda, The World x World and Infinite Wars: Awakening. At the opening, Taro Iwashiro, a well-known Japanese composer and music producer, was invited...

NHN to Shut Down Several Games Including TERA and Kritika

Korean game company NHN is going to sharp cut the client game business. Most of the games they published might possibly be shut down, including the hot MMO TERA and Kritika. By now, they have already announced the closure of 3 MMOs, which are ASTA,...

Animoca Brands Signs Distribution Agreement with Tencent To Publish ‘Armies of Dragons’

Animoca Brands announced it has entered into an exclusive agreement with China’s leading digital entertainment and technology company Tencent to distribute its mobile game Armies of Dragons across the WeChat platform in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. The title will be distributed on the platform...

What Press And Media Outlets Say About Tokyo Game Show 2015

The Tokyo Game Show (TGS) closed its doors on Sunday with the 2nd highest number of visitors in its history. Under the theme “Play Your Way: Games Unleashed”, TGS 2015 had the record high of 480 corporations/organizations (246 were from outside of Japan) as...

China’s Lead Eastern Group To Buy 10% in Reliance’s Zapak Mobile Games

Chinese conglomerate Lead Eastern Group is picking up 10% stake in Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Games' mobile gaming company Zapak Mobile Games for $15 million, forming a strategic partnership to create and market mobile games globally and giving Reliance Games a foothold in the massive...

Meet Simple Connect Fun Studio – Part of “GameFounders Asia Fall 2015”

Starting this week GameFounders will be introducing the teams of their "GameFounders Asia Fall 2015 program". In total GameFounder has 10 developers altogether, all of them with different backgrounds and different games, but the same goal to make better games than yesterday. Lets start with Simple...

Sony Says China Sales of PlayStation 4 Limited by Censorship Rules

Sony PlayStation 4
Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House spoke to Reuters in regards to the PlayStation 4 launch in China. House admits that mostly due to the ongoing battle with Chinese censorship over what titles can be published, sales of the PS4 have been slower than...

Tokyo Game Show Attracted 268,500 Visitors – 2nd Highest Attendance In The History Of The Event

The Tokyo Game Show (TGS) closed its doors on Sunday with the 2nd highest number of visitors in its history. TGS is organized by the Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association, in cooperation with Nikkei Business Publications, Inc. and was held over a four-day period from September...

Bandai Namco on Bringing Its Japanese Properties to Western Markets

Namco Bandai
It's no secret that Bandai Namco has been on a localisation spree since the PlayStation 4 launched almost two years ago. It's been busy pumping out translated titles right, left, and centre for months, so we thought that it'd be interesting to get a...

How Social & Mobile Gaming Increase Sales

Mobile growth and market disruption for Asia in 2014
Social and mobile gaming have democratized video games to a greater extent than ever thought possible and in the process, have opened up new demographics for gaming companies (Source: Tim Alan, Business2community). The proliferation of mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, combined with...

China’s Game Makers Target Japanes Games Market

More Chinese smartphone game makers are present at the Tokyo Game Show this year the never. The creators of Smart Jojo, The AirBender and Attack! Three Kingdoms are among those attending this week’s show to meet Japanese publishers, attract talent and promote their titles in...

YouTube is Bringing its Gaming App to Japan

TechinAsia reported that YouTube is bringing its gaming app to Japan. Japan will be one of the first markets globally, after the US and UK, to get a localized version of the gaming-only video and live-streaming app. With six of the top 10 most-watched...