India: Sultan – The Game Is A Front Runner On Google Play Within 2 Days Of Release
Within two days of game release, Sultan: The Game has rocketed to the number one position of Top Free Games on the Google Play Store in India. Developed by 99Games in collaboration with Yash Raj Films (YRF), Sultan: The Game has pasted all other...
Alibaba’s Alisports Will Change Pro Gaming
Increasingly, millions agree with Zhou’s point of view. Professional video gaming, also known as eSports, is soaring in popularity with a growing fan base that considers a star like Zhou Hang as legitimate a competitor as Stephen Curry or Russell Wilson. Zhou Hang is...
Japanese App Line Brings In USD 270 Million Per Year Selling Stickers
Japanese messaging app Line has reported earnings of over $20 million a month from the sale of stickers, reports TechCrunch and Inquisitr. They are usually sold in sets of 12 to 18 and go for a couple of dollars per set according from data...
Attention! That’s The Secret To Mobile Game Success
In the over-saturated mobile games market, publishers are increasingly willing to pay to get their titles in front of eager players according to a report from Nielsen. Whether it be through app store promotions, traditional media or advertising on social media, these platforms are...
Tencent Looking To Buy Stake In Supercell
Tencent is discussing the purchase of SoftBank Group’s majority stake in Supercell in a deal that may value the Finnish game maker at USD $9 billion, higher than previously thought, according to people familiar with the matter.
The talks are at an early stage and...
Akshat Rathee: With ESL, The History Of eSports In India May Have Just Begun
The history of eSports in India has been widely undocumented. That’s because there isn’t one to speak of. From the outside, the Indian gaming community seems to be made of children, haplessly whiling away time on video games according to a report and an...
gamescom 2016: The Licence Day Is Taking Place Again
Following the successful premiere last year with more than 400 participants, the gamescom licence day is taking place again in 2016. In the context of Europe's leading business platform for the games industry, license holders and experts from around the world will discuss current...
Warcraft Shatters IMAX Opening-day Box Office Records
IMAX China announced that Warcraft, released by Legendary Pictures, scored a record-setting opening day in 290 IMAX theatres across China with box office of USD 5.33 million (RMB 35 million). The new all-time record surpassed the previous record-holder Furious 7's of RMB 31 million. In...
Senator Manny Pacquiao Acquires A Stake In GToken
The crowdsourced mobile games publisher and advertising platform, GToken, has announced that the World Champion Boxer and Philippines Senator, Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, has acquired a meaningful stake in the Singapore based company.
With over a million users to date across Southeast Asia, Taiwan and...
New Law In China Delays Launch Of Mobile Games By A Month
To put this news into perspective, the State Administration of Press, Publications, Radio, Film, and Television (SAPPRFT) are scrutinizing mobile games in China. On Thursday last week, the government organ issued new rules that will take effect July 1st, requiring that all mobile games be...
Kakao Is Teaming Up With Nox App Player To Make Mobile Games Available On PC
South Korea's chat app operator Kakao is teaming up with Android app emulator Duodian Network to make popular mobile games such as Friends Run, Seven Nights, and Friends Pop available on PC.
The corporation behind South Korea's most popular messenger app said on Monday it...
Nielsen: Gamers In China And Latin America Have The Heaviest Preference For Freemium Games
It’s now 2016, and gaming has firmly moved out of the basement and into the living room–and beyond. In fact, more than half of the population in the world’s industrialized countries now identifies as gamers, which has brought a tidal wave of change across...
Gamefounders Increased Seed Capital For Asia Fall 2016
GameFounders will increase its investment size by almost 50% to $25,000 and extend the deadline for the Fall 2016 intake to June 20 so more studios can take advantage of the opportunity.
Gamefounders, the global startup accelerator for video games, is offering 10 game studios...
Sega Brings Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice to E3 and Reveals Exclusive Launch Edition
Sega announced that its highly anticipated title Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice, hitting shelves September 27, will be at this year's E3, where gamers and Sonic fans alike will be able to get their hands on the game for the first time.
In time for...
Myanmar based Developer Studio ‘Kodots’ Launches ‘Wanda – A Beautiful Apocalypse’ on Steam in July
Independent development studio Kodots, one of the very few development studios in Myanmar, is launching is new game 'Wanda - A Beautiful Apocalypse' on Steam and other retailers of digitally downloaded PC games on 3 July 3, 2016.
Wanda - A Beautiful Apocalypse is a...
Digital Bros (505 Games) To Launch Terraria In China with iDreamsky
Digital Bros., a digital entertainment company listed at the Milan Stock Exchange, through its subsidiary 505 Games S.p.A., announced that it has assigned the exclusive rights to Chinese iDreamSky Technology to launch the mobile version of Terraria in China.
“We are delighted to launch Terraria in...
Netmarble’ s ‘Seven Knights’ Recorded More Than 4 Million Downloads In Japan
Netmarble Games announced its mobile game "Seven Knights" has become the first Korean title to rank fourth on the Apple Appstore top-grossing chart for Japan. Korea's largest mobile game company stressed that this is the best-ever performance of a Korean mobile game in Japan, one of...
Ragnarok 2 Comes To Indonesia
WarpPortal announced that finally the adventure MMORPG Ragnarok Online 2 is coming to Indonesia. Ever growing the global Ragnarok Online 2 family, Indonesian players can continue to merge their accounts via our registration page. With in-game events to help new players get up to speed, Ragnarok...
Malaysian ‘MJS Level One Developer’ Launches Gamekicker Campaign For Sprint
MJS Level One Entertainment, a developer based in Malaysia has begun their Gamekicker campaign, seeking to raise fundings for the completion of their action game Sprint.
Sprint is a 2D action platformer game where world affairs in the game are designed to be an extension...
Singapore Based Cloud Alliance Got Series A Investment From Aetius Capital
Riding the wave of a booming mobile games industry, Singapore-based private investment firm, Aetius Capital, has successfully closed a USD5 million Series A funding for Cloud Alliance.
Cloud Alliance is a Singapore-based company that specializes in developing platform solutions for the games industry. Cloud Alliance...
