Inside Games Asia

In April 2015, Webzen expanded its business area into the mobile market, with the release of mobile MMORPG ‘MU: Origin’, and became one of the biggest mobile game publishers in Korea. Since  MU: Origin launched in Korea on April 28th, 2015, it has been...

This is a Background Story from Forbes Asia´s Jessica Tan about Garena´s success Story. The Story appears in the Forbes Asia July 2015 edition. On a balmy Sunday in June 2005 Forrest Li attended his girlfriend’s graduation at Stanford, where he was an M.B.A. student. That morning...

Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase announced a three-year agreement to license Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch to a NetEase affiliate in China. Revealed last November, Overwatch brings Blizzard’s signature easy-to-learn, hard-to-master gameplay to the FPS genre. “With Overwatch, we’re putting our own spin on the team-based shooter — highly accessible, with...

GigaMedia Limited, an online games and computing services provider, today announced that it has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire a 70% equity interest in Strawberry Cosmetics Holding Limited, a global cosmetics e-commerce company. The total consideration payable by GigaMedia for the acquisition...

Following the success of Soul Hunters in Asia, Chinese game developer Lilith Games has released in collaboration with publisher Kick9 its card collecting battle game (CCBG) in North America. Soul Hunters is available for download across mobile platforms in the West. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Aw-qPBM2A&feature=player_detailpage   Soul Hunters sees players collecting more than 80 heroes and...

The Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has voted a paper that urges the EU Commission to significantly restrict “freedom of panorama” as a part of the anticipated reform of EU rules on copyright. Such step would have dire consequences for developers’ creative...

IGA.biz had the chance to talk to Andrew Walker, Partner at GameFounders, about their current GameFounders Asia Accelerator Program. Here are the latest updates about the GameFounders Asia Accelerator Program: IGA.biz: Why have you extended the deadline? Andrew: We have had a lot of applications, more...

Game Publisher Actoz Games announced that their  newest mobile RPG “Retimo Adventure”, developed by Maui Games, has been released on Google Play Store. “Retimo Adventure”is scheduled to be released soon on various markets and platforms including the Apple App Store. “Retimo Adventure” follows the story of the...

Shigeru Miyamoto is the creator of many of Nintendo's iconic video game franchises, including Mario Bros., Donkey Kong and The Legend of Zelda. NPR's Laura Sydell interviewed the 62-year-old designer at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles this week. Miyamoto spoke, through an...

How far will Sonic run?! SEGA announced that Sonic Runners™ is now available worldwide*. The 2D side-scrolling infinite runner is the first free-to-play (F2P) Sonic title created exclusively for mobile by the world-renowned Sonic Team, SEGA’s resident Sonic experts out of Japan. Featuring Sonic, Tails,...

Despite the Wii U launching a full year ahead of competition from Microsoft and Sony, Wii U sales lag behind those of its competitors: Wii U has sold around 7.5 million units worldwide, while the PlayStation 4 topped 20 Million February, and the Xbox One is 10+ million...

More United Kingdom (UK) based games businesses than ever have signed up to be part of the Ukie (Association for United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment ) industry stand at gamescom, which will this year be featuring a Royal theme. It is also confirmed that the UK...

Sanuk Games announced that Bombing Busters will land in the European PlayStation Store for PS4 on July 2nd. It will be released in America at a later date. Previously released as “Bombing Bastards” on Wii U and on Steam, the game got a bunch of...

Mobile game developer Innospark has closed $6.5M in Series B financing with participation from venture capital firm Keytone Ventures (founded by the former founding managing partner at KPCB China and former partners at IDG-Accel) and from SL investment and Company K Partners Limited, as part...

The roll out of updated SDKs from mobile gaming analytics specialist GameAnalytics , which bring a host of new tools both to Google's mobile operating system and games development tool Unity, directly follows on from a major update to the iOS SDK, with a host...

Bandai Namco Entertainment announced that Dragon Ball Z Extreme Butoden will be available in Middle-East and Asia Pacific starting October 16th. Developed by Arc System Works teams, Dragon Ball Z Extreme Butoden contains amazing features bound to an energetic and visually attractive fighting game. With 20 playable characters and more...

According to a new Report from Counterpoint Research Indonesia’s smartphone market has expanded 55 per cent in Q1 / 2015,as compared to an year ago, and now accounts for just over half of total handset shipments. The $50-$100 price range represents nearly half of the...

New data from Japan’s biggest video game magazine Famitsu, which tracks the country's game market, reveals that the country's game business has hit an all-time high: $9.6 billion dollars in 2014. Japan's thriving mobile game business is responsible for a huge chunk of that: $...

FIFA fans from around the world have voted over 2 million times for their favourite leagues to be featured in coming EA Sports FIFA 16 game. The vote setup by FIFPlay.com has 64 domestic leagues as voting options, the leagues which have not been...

South Korean game developer and publisher Joycity announced the launch of its new mobile 3D action game Warship Battle. Warship Battle is a 3D action game with authentic military vessels and missions based on historical battles. Its predecessor Gunship Battle has already garnered the attention of...