Inside Games Asia Forum 2015 in Singapore Announced
Southeast Asia is growing beyond other similar regions such as LATAM. Projections show 85% of games industry growth by 2017 will come from Asia. Southeast Asia has already become a battleground for global players in the games space. What should be at the top...
Kakao Bets On Gaming For Profits
Daum Kakao's messaging app, KakaoTalk, has virtually replaced SMS texting in South Korea and has a subscriber base to match, with 38 million people in the country -- amounting to two-thirds of the population -- and another 10 million abroad, many of those in...
Sony Has Finally Named Its VR Headset
Sony finally given a name to its virtual reality gaming headset. The headset will be called "PlayStation VR" at the Sony stated at their press conference at Tokyo Game Show. Sony and will be available in the next few months. It was unveiled in...
Konami to Exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2015
Konami Digital Entertainment will exhibit at Tokyo Game Show 2015 (TGS 2015) Konami will showcase global titles such as Metal Gear Solid V: The phantom pain and Pro Evolution Soccer 2016. In addition to the single player campaign, MGSV: TPP will soon also feature the...
Malaysian Games Companies Presenting at Tokyo Game Show 2015
A trade mission of several top Malaysian companies in the games industry is making the trip from Kuala Lumpur to participate in the Tokyo Game Show September 17 - 20 at the Makuhari Convention Center.
Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) will be heading to Tokyo Game...
Game Analyst Stefanie Hels Left Ubisoft’s Singapore Operations and Joined Spil Games
Stefanie Hels, a leader in game analytics, data mining and virtual economies, has joined Spil Games, augmenting the company’s skills in game intelligence. Stefanie joined Spil Games from Ubisoft’s Singapore operations on September 1, 2015 as Senior Manager for Business Intelligence.
“I’m delighted to have...
The Entire Star Wars Saga now Available on Tencent’s Platform in China
In a landmark deal between Tencent and Disney the creation of a single Star Wars digital hub in China will provide millions of Star Wars fans across the country with unprecedented access to the complete Star Wars saga in the lead up to the much-awaited...
Bandai Namco Entertainment Australia Distributes New NIS America Titles in Australia And New Zealand
In partnership with the North American / PAL region video game publisher Nippon Ichi Software America, the team at Bandai Namco Entertainment Australia have confirmed that both Etrian Mystery Dungeon and Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls are now available for purchase on the...
Tatsumi Kimishima Is The New President Of Nintendo
Nintendo has a new president: It’s Tatsumi Kimishima, former CEO of the Japanese gaming company’s North American operations, as its new president, selecting a low-profile successor after Satoru Iwata’s passing on July 11, 2015.
Tatsumi Kimishima has been at Nintendo since 2000 when he was appointed...
Sega’s Tokyo Game Show 2015 Line Up
Sega launched their website for Tokyo Game Show 2015. The fully announced official line-up includes 7th Dragon III Code: VFD (Nintendo 3DS), Criminal Girls 2 (PS Vita), Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir (PS4, PS3, PS Vita), Persona 5 (PS4, PS3), Phantasy Star Online 2 (PS4, PS Vita,...
PlayStation Tokyo Game Show 2015 Press Conference On Tuesday
Before Tokyo Game Show 2015 begins on September 17, there will be a PlayStation press conference on Tuesday, September 15 at 4pm JST (12am PT/3am ET), Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia recently announced. Running for 90 minutes, the event will focus on Japan and,...
Line Forges Strategic Partnership with Locojoy to Raise Games-only Investment Funds
On 8. September, global mobile messaging platform Line announced that it forged a strategic partnership with Chinese game developer Locojoy to raise game-only investment funds through joint investment.
Locojoy is the company behind Master Tanker 1, which scored 2 million daily active users for the...
Chinese Mobile Ad Platform Mobvista to Pump US$100 Million in India by 2018
Chinese mobile advertising company Mobvista will invest $100 million in India, with an aim to tap into one of the world’s largest mobile advertising markets. The investment will be spread over three years and used to hire engineers and partner with large companies.
According to...
Tokyo Game Show 2015 Unveiled Floor Plans
The Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association has published the floor maps for the expo floor, the business meeting area and the business solution area for this year’s Tokyo Game Show. Sony Computer Entertainment and Cygames have the biggest booths at this year’s event, with Bandai...
Casual Games Publisher GameTop.com Moves Headquarters to Singapore
Casual games publisher GameTop.com has changed the company headquarters from the United States to Singapore in mid-2015. With the new focus, gamers in the region and around the world can enjoy downloadable full-version games for free. The move allows GameTop to become more widely...
Google provides the Platform for all China’s VR Hardware Makers
Google has drawn media attention with its recent investment in the Swedish video game developer Resolution Games to the tune of US$6 million and its launch of a second generation of Google Cardboard, a virtual reality platform. Like the first generation of Google Cardboard,...
Why Southeast Asia Is Leading The World’s Most Disruptive Mobile Business Models
TechCrunch' s Sheji Ho thinks that innovation and disruption in mobile will be coming out of Southeast Asia far faster than other regions, such as the U.S., China and Japan, as expected. He argues that Southeast Asia is at the crossroads of two major socio-technical forces that...
Nexon and Big Huge Games’ DomiNations Hits 12 Million Downloads in Five Months
Nexon and Big Huge Games have revealed today that DomiNations, the mobile strategy game challenging players to lead their own civilization from the Stone Age to the Space Age, has been downloaded more than 12 million times to mobile devices around the world in...
Son of China’s Richest Man to Launch Panda TV – a New eSports Streaming Service
The son of China's richest man is setting up an e-sports streaming service that will go head-to-head with Amazon's Twitch.tv, it was revealed this week. Wang Sicong, whose father is Dalian Wanda Group chairman Wang Jianlin, said on microblogging service Weibo that he will...
Dragon’s Dogma Tops 100,000 Simultaneous Players
Dragon’s Dogma Online has logged a total of 100,000 players all connected at the same time, Capcom announced. To celebrate, Capcom plans on distributing 5,000 free Rim points to players at some point in the near future. Additionally, total downloads for Dragon’s Dogma Online...
