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DeNA earnings up 10 per cent to 52.2 billion JPY

DeNA
Japanese mobile gaming and ecommerce platform DeNA reported first quarter results of JPY 52.2 billion JPY (US$532 million), up 10 percent year on year. The company's operating profit for the period came in at 17 billion JPY (US$173 million). Earnings from DeNA's social gaming platform...

Namco Bandai’s quarter mixed, game earnings stable

Namco Bandai
Namco Bandai released their first quarter results recording sales of 105.8 billion JPY, down 2.6 per cent year on year, with quarterly operating profits down 17.4 per cent at 13.3 billion JPY. Game revenues were up slightly to 57 billion JPY, though operating profit declined...

Giant Interactive’s revenues up 11.3 per cent

Giant Interactive
Chinese game developer and publisher Giant Interactive announced second quarter revenues of 588.1 million RMB (US$95.8 million), an increase of 2.7 per cent from the previous quarter and a rise of 11.3 per cent year on year. The company's net profit for the period...

Marvelous AQL reports strong sales, revises forcasts up

Marvelous AQL
Japanese game and anime producer Marvelous AQL reported first quarter revenues of 4.4 billion JPY, up 46.2 per cent year on year. The company also revised its operating profit forecast up 30 per cent for the first half. Japanese sales of Valhalla Knights 3 for...

Mobile and web games in Asia lift Square Enix’ results

SQEX
Square Enix today reported a first quarter deficit of 493 million JPY (circa US$5 million), a year on year improvement from losses of 2.01 billion JPY (circa US$21 million) recorded last year. The company confirmed no new major releases for the fiscal period, but...

GREE closing Tellit mobile messaging service

Tellit
GREE has notified Tellit users to announce plans to close the service at the start of September. "We launched Tellit last year in an effort to make it easy for people to connect with their friends and share interesting content with each other," said the...

China’s Yodo1 partners with BonusXP to release Cavemania

Cavemania
Chinese mobile game publisher Yodo1 revealed today that the company has partnered with US developer BonusXP to distribute Cavemania worldwide this fall. The Texas-based mobile game studio has also produced Age of Empires and Halo Wars titles. As reported earlier, Yodo1 recently acquired US$5 million...

Sega among companies bidding in auction for Atlus assets

Atlus
Circa 200 billion JPY in auction bids filed with the Tokyo District Court last week included Sega Sammy among the 20 companies looking to purchase the assets of Index, bankrupt parent of Atlus. As reported earlier, Index is seeking 15 billion JPY (US$148.7 million),...

Asiasoft to host Chaos Online SEA tournament

Chaos Online
Thai publisher Asiasoft has announced a Chaos Online regional championship, to run from August to December this year. The tournament will be open to players from Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines, and will feature a US$10,000 prize pool. Qualifier rounds for each...

Konami’s sales and profits decline in a quiet period

Konami
With no major releases in the first financial quarter, Konami reported revenues for the period of 45.6 million JPY, down 7.2 per cent year on year, and operating profits of 1.5 million JPY, down 72.2 per cent from the same quarter last year. The report...

Shanda Games announces acquisitions valued at US$811.5M

Shanda Games
Leading Chinese game developer and publisher Shanda Games has announced an agreement to acquire affiliates Shanghai Shengzhan Networking Technology and Tianjin Shengjing from parent Shanda Interactive Entertainment in a transaction valued at US$811.5 million. Shanda Games currently pays service fees to both companies for user...

Messaging app GupShup adds nine local languages in India

GupShup
GupShup has announced the roll out of nine Indian languages for users of the company's mobile messaging app in India: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. The app has previously only supported English. GupShup's localisation of the platform for non-English speakers...

China’s Internet user base reaches 591M

CNNIC
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) announced in a report this week that internet users in China grew to 591 million as of the end of June 2013, up 26.56 million from the end of 2012. Internet penetration has also reached 44.1 per...

New VN Internet regulations from September

VN Internet, MIC official
Vietnam's Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has announced new Internet, social networking and gaming regulations covering online management, licensing and copyrights in the country. The new laws go into effect in September. Some critics have labelled the new Vietnamese regulations as a threat to...

Sony’s hardware revenues down, mobile and software sales up

Sony
Sony released their first quarter financial report for 2013, revealing that sales grew by 13 per cent to 1.712 trillion JPY, with net profits of 3.48 billion JPY (US$35.38 million); a year on year decline from net profits of 24.64 billion JPY (US$250 million)...

Earnings rise as Sega’s move to digital pays off

Sega
Sega Sammy has announced first quarter revenues of 90.7 billion JPY, up 29.6 per cent from last year, with profits of 12.9 billion JPY, up 408 percent from the same period in 2012. Video game division earnings totalled 18.8 billion JPY for the period,...

Kakao game platform hits 30M players

Kakao Games
Korea’s Kakao game platform has acquired 30 million players, according to Kakao's Eric Choi. The platform is part of the Kakao Talk mobile messaging service, with 100 million users and available in 12 languages and 200 countries. According to Choi, eight Kakao games have generated...

Nintendo reports only 160,000 Wii U consoles sold last quarter

Nintendo
Nintendo’s latest financial report reveals that the company sold just 160,000 Wii U consoles for the period from April to June this year. Wii U sales have dropped sharply since 3.06 million were sold in the first quarter after the console's launch. “Wii U hardware...

Giant to launch PLA’s controversial military sim in China

Glorious Mission Online
Glorious Mission Online, a 'Call of Duty' style game created by the Chinese military in 2011, will be released online in China this month by game publisher Giant Interactive. "The online version will target adolescent gamers and military buffs, and help bolster national defence education...

ChinaJoy 2013 visitor total tops 200,000

ChinaJoy 2013
The eleventh annual ChinaJoy game show came to a close on Sunday, and the organisers have announced total attendance figures of 201,112 during the four day event in Shanghai. ChinaJoy 2013 featured several B2B and B2C exhibition halls with over 400 exhibitors, special press and...