Gungho Online Entered Partnership With Camouflaj
GungHo Online Entertainment America, the US subsidary of GungHo Japan, announced that the company has entered into a partnership with independent game studio Camouflaj to promote and publish future titles, including upcoming episodes of the critically acclaimed stealth action game République. Created by the industry veterans...
Advergaming takes off in Asia
Advergaming, games developed by brands, is playing an important role in the growing Asian games market, with engagement rates reported to be significantly higher than in-game advertising. The latter approach is growing at 17-19% a year according to Campaign Asia-Pacific, buoyed by the expanding console game...
Boomzap Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Legends of Fire & Steel
Legends of Fire & Steel is an innovative turn-based single and multiplayer fantasy world conquest game that we are currently developing for PC, Mac, and mobile tablets. Set in a world with three warring races - Human, Fae, Revenant - players create armies which...
Increase in Number of Games Startups in Malaysia Through GameFounders Asia Program
GameFounders describes itself as a global gaming accelerator, and according to a three-year partnership with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), has made Malaysia its hub for Asia.
Digital News Asia reported that the partnership will cost national ICT custodian MDeC an estimated US$1 million (RM3.75 Million) Investment. MDeC, when...
ESPN on eSports – Gaming Your Brain
ESPN´s Simon Parkin gives with his report a deep insight view about the data science of eSports. George Yao walked into the bathroom of his unfeasibly small $1,450-a-month San Francisco apartment and slid each of his five iPads into a zip-lock freezer bag. He was preparing,...
Bandai Namco Announced New Disney Game – Disney Magic Castle 2: My Happy Life
Bandai Namco Entertainment launched a website lat week for Disney Magic Castle 2: My Happy Life, a follow-up to Disney Magical World, again for Nintendo 3DS. The website will host a live stream with more information on July 6.
The first game — which allowed players...
E3 2015 Closes Record Breaking
More than 52,200 video game professionals, analysts, journalists, and enthusiasts, representing 109 countries attended this week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today at the close of E3 2015. On display at the premier global video game event were more...
Nooby Island Releases Minidom in Southeast Asia
Minidom, a free-to-play mobile strategic RPG, is now available in Southeast Asia. Known for their “Minis”, the game expands to a wider setting for gamers to experience this action-packed game unlike any other. The game is now available in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the...
David Ting about the Business of Netease
At E3 David Ting, North America Studio GM Netease, gave some insight about the company's success. Rather than build a market from scratch, NetEase looks for mature markets for its products, according to Ting.Take mobile gaming, for example. NetEase started its mobile business about two and...
Asian and Malaysian Qualifier for ESL One Tournament at gamescom 2015
The Asian offline Qualifier for ESL One, Counter Strike: Global Offensive at gamescom 2015 will take place in July and will feature eight top teams from around the region with one slot is specifically reserved for a Malaysian Team. In order to choose the team that...
After E3 – Newest Update ChinaJoy 2015
China today is quite different from a decade ago. Nowadays game show is more like a paradise for young people, full of joy. People now tend to express their feelings than ever. This is why we named it ChinaJoy originally." said Mr. Shawn Luan,...
Korean Internet Giants Set Eye On Indonesia
Korean Internet companies are making forays into the Indonesia market, viewing the nation as the bridgehead in the global market on the grounds of the growing mobile market and less strict regulations than China. Market watchers say the nation has a high growth potential,...
Huawei Sets Up Regional ‘Cloud Exchange’ in Malaysia
Huawei Technologies has opened its first regional data hosting centre, the Asia Pacific Digital Cloud Exchange, in the Iskandar Malaysia Development Hub in the southern state of Johor. The Exchange will aggregate and distribute digital music, mobile games, video and other multimedia services to telcos in...
Asean Games Associations Agree on Collaboration
Games industry association leaders from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have agreed to support the development of a SEA Games Industry survey, the Asean ‘Game Jam’ and GameFounders Asia in Kuala Lumpur. They also shared a high interest in fostering industry-academia collaboration...
Thailand’s Mobile Content and Application Market is Small, but Growing Fast
The mobile content and applications market in Thailand continues to grow, but customer usage outside of social networking and entertainment shows weak adoption of mobile applications. As the second largest smartphone market in ASEAN region, Thailand's mobile content market is potentially lucrative. There are...
XII Braves is Calling for its Force Hero Design Contest
XII Braves presents the Valiant Force Hero Design Contest. The developer based in Singapore are calling on all artistic minds around the world to submit their original work that would be a great fit in the world of Valiant Force, scheduled for launch in fall 2015....
ZQGame Strikes E3 with Modern Warfare Era MMOG
Shenzhen ZQGame will be unveiling its military-themed massively multiplayer online game, 'Final Fire', during E3 2015 in Los Angeles. Set in the era of modern warfare, enlistees will choose their allegiance and battle in team versus team armored vehicle combat fought throughout the land, air and...
Nnooo announced Blast ‘Em Bunnies for Xbox One’
Sydney based Indie Developer Nnooo announced Blast 'Em Bunnies is adding Xbox One to its launch lineup. Blast 'Em Bunnies is a pick-up-and-play endless bunny shooter in which you defend your burrow from a horde of evil bunnies before they take you down! “We're really...
NetDragon Websoft Inc. to Fully Acquire Intelligent Voice and Speech Technology Provider ChiVox
NetDragon Websoft Inc., a leading developer and operator of online games and mobile Internet platforms in China, announced earlier this week that it has signed the stock purchase agreement to acquire a 100% stake in ChiVox Co., Ltd., a leading intelligent voice and speech technology...
The Open Gaming Alliance Launches Indie Program
The Open Gaming Alliance (OGA), a non-profit trade association focused on the games industry business, announced it has launched several new initiatives, including two new membership levels, three new special interest groups, and significant expansion of its current indie studio support. These initiatives, created...
