Rumor: Diablo 3 Coming to China This July
Leaked Chinese screenshots and gameplay videos have led to rumors that Diablo 3 could be hitting Chinese servers as early as July. The game still has no official Chinese release date, though. The post...
View ArticleMobile Social Games Can’t Be Pirated If They Are Free
Here’s an interesting article by Chris Shen of The9, a Chinese online game platform. In short, Shen believes that mobile social gaming is more mature here in the East than in the U.S, especially in...
View ArticleGREE Talks Global Expansion at E3
While our content was dominated by our Startup Asia Jakarta 2012 event last week, E3 was going on in Los Angeles, and Japan’s GREE (TYO:3632) was there showing off its global gaming platform. The folks...
View ArticleKonami to Bring Powerful Pro Baseball to GREE and Mobage
Gaming news website AndriaSang.com is reporting that Konami (NYSE:KNM) will take its Powerful Pro Baseball to social game platforms GREE and Mobage this summer, for both iOS and Android. Players will...
View ArticleJapan’s GREE, DeNA Monetize Far Better Than Zynga [Report]
Thanks to Serkan Toto on Twitter for pointing out this piece by The Wall Street Journal on Japanese mobile social gaming companies GREE (TYO:3632) and DeNA (TYO:2432). I encourage you to click over and...
View ArticleGet in LINE for Games
Japan’s popular messaging app Line could well become a social platform for mobile games. That’s highly possible, considering that Sina Weibo’s app which has already integrated games smoothly onto its...
View ArticleZynga Hiring More Engineers in China
Bloomberg is reporting that Zynga (NASDAQ:ZNGA) is hiring more engineers in China, in addition to the 100 employees the company already has in Beijing. The company recently partnered with Sina to allow...
View ArticleNintendo Announces Bigger, Better 3DS Console
Today Nintendo (TYO:7974) announced an upsized version of its 3DS console, called the 3DS LL. It features a 4.88-inch upper screen and a 4.18-inch lower screen. It’s scheduled to go on sale in Japan on...
View ArticleLine Birzzle Had 2 Million Downloads in its First Day
Yesterday we told you about how the new Line Birzzle game for iOS had hit number one Japan, as well as in six other Asia regions. According to gamebiz.jp, for the title’s first day public on July 4,...
View ArticleBlizzard’s Battle.net World Championship To Be Held in Shanghai
Blizzard Entertainment with the help of NetEase will be hosting the Battle.net World Championship in Shanghai, China on November 17 (Sat) and 18 (Sun) this year. The competition will be focusing on...
View ArticleAlienware’s DOTA Finals To Be Held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Defense Of The Ancients (DOTA) is still looking pretty popular even after Diablo 3 stormed the world. Alienware has announced that it will host its DOTA 2 competition between Singapore and Malaysia...
View ArticleMobile Game ‘Math with Springbird’ Hits 10,000 Downloads in First Week
A week back we featured Melbourne-based startup, Broccol-e-games, and its plans for Asia. Today it has announced that it has reached 10,000 downloads with its Maths with Springbird app, within just a...
View ArticleShanda Games Will Set Up Base in Europe
Shanda Games will set up an operating base in Europe following an agreement between one of its subsidiaries and Germany-based eFusion. The post Shanda Games Will Set Up Base in Europe appeared first on...
View ArticleNexon Partners With EA Sports to Bring FIFA Online 3 to Korea
Korean football fans can delight in the fact that FIFA Online 3 is coming to Korea, thanks to a partnership between Nexon (TYO: 3659) and EA Sports studio (NASDAQ:ERTS). Nexon is a popular South Korean...
View ArticleNCsoft’s ‘Lineage’ to be Distributed by GREE in Japan
Japanese social game maker GREE (TYO:3632) is announcing today a business partnership with Korea’s NCsoft (KRX:036570) to distribute its popular ‘Lineage’ title in Japan for mobile devices, with the...
View ArticleGREE and NetDragon Among Entertainment Software Association New Members
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has just added three new members including Japanese mobile social gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) and Chinese game developer NetDragon Websoft Inc...
View ArticleJapanese Mobile Gaming Giant GREE Goes to London
Japanese social gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) is continuing its overseas expansion with a new studio in London’s Silicon Roundabout. Gree UK CEO Ryotaro Shima explained: The formation of a UK studio...
View ArticleMind Candy Announces New Moshi Monster Mobile Games For GREE
Back in May, Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) announced a partnership with entertainment company Mind Candy, to release mobile games from its popular Moshi Monsters franchise. Today it was...
View ArticleGREE on Responding to Your Game’s Users After Release
There’s a great interview over at Edge Online with GREE’s (TYO:3632) senior vice president Taisei Yoshida, touching on the different ways that the company develops games, collecting user data after...
View ArticleDeNA Partners with Axel Mark to Cooperate in Social Games
Japanese social gaming companies DeNA (TYO:2432) and Axel Mark (TYO:3624) have agreed to a strategic agreement to cooperate in further developing their social gaming business both in Japan and...
View ArticleGREE Set to Go Big Again at Tokyo Game Show 2012
Gaming news website Andria Sang is reporting that GREE’s (TYO:3632) booth at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, to be held on September 20 to 23, will be every bit as big as it was last year when it occupied...
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China’s Tencent Raises $600 Million from Notes Offering
China’s biggest web company by revenue, Tencent (HKG:0700), has today set a price of $600 million, and a rate of 3.375 percent, on a senior unsecured notes offering. This will raise $594 million for...
View ArticleGaming News Website Andriasang.com to Close Down
Some sad news today for gaming fans out there, as Andriasang.com, a popular source of gaming news from Japan has announced that it is closing down. But thankfully, the site’s archives will remain...
View ArticleHow A Chinese Game Publisher Successfully Localized Hero Academy for China
There’s a great piece over on GameSutra from Yodo1 CEO Henry Feng about how his company helped Robot Entertainment localize its Hero Academy game in China: The overall results were hugely gratifying:...
View ArticleJapanese Game Ameba Pico Collaborates With Indonesian Girl Group Cherrybelle
Japanese virtual world game Ameba Pico has made an official collaboration with Indonesian all-girl pop group Cherrybelle. During the promotional period, which starts from today and runs until October...
View ArticleSquare Enix Weighing Feedback on its High Mobile Game Pricing
Pocket Gamer cites Anthony Douglas, Square Enix’s (TYO:9684) general manager for mobile in Europe, on the company’s extremely high mobile game prices: $20 for something you can play for 30 or 40 hours...
View ArticleJapanese Hit Game ‘Puzzles & Dragons’ Finally Available in US App Store
Social games expert Serkan Toto points out this evening that Puzzles and Dragons has finally made the jump to the Apple’s US app store. The game is one of the most popular in Japan, and has racked up...
View ArticleIndonesia’s Indigo Fellowship 2012 Highlights Some Great Tech Ideas
The winners of Telkom Group’s Indigo Fellowship 2012 have been awarded in four categories. The competition was created to help facilitate the growing digital creative industry in Indonesia, and channel...
View ArticleBlackBerry 10 ‘Game Port-a-Thon’ Events Hit Asia in December
RIM’s (NASDAQ:RIMM) Blackberry Jam Asia event is going on today (Crackberry blog has a keynote liveblog here) with a focus on the upcoming BB 10 OS. RIM has also just confirmed its roster of...
View ArticleGame Over for Zynga Japan: Tokyo Office to Close January 31
Zynga Japan will be closing down its Tokyo office at the end of January, according to notices posted on its website. We had a foreshadowing that this would happen back in October when Zynga...
View ArticleGamasutra: Nintendo Sold as Few as 45,000 Wii U Consoles in January
Nintendo‘s (TYO:7974) newest console, the Wii U, is proving to be a hard sell now that most casual gamers have moved onto smartphone gaming. How bad is it for Nintendo? A source tells Gamasutra that...
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Nijibox’s Latest Game Lets You Play with Indonesian Girl Band JKT48
Japanese game developer Nijibox released its newest game for the Kotagames platform yesterday called JKT48 Card Battle. JKT48 is an Indonesian all-girl pop band that’s a spin-off from Japan’s AKB48....
View ArticleAdways Indonesia’s Musica Sphere Has 80,000 Users, Launches Second Game
A few days ago, digital media agency Adways Indonesia launched its second feature phone game on the Kotagames platform called Mononoke Capture. The game basically lets you fight and collect up to 400...
View ArticleKakaoTalk Rolls Out Free Data Usage to Two Telcos in Indonesia
After chat apps Line and KakaoTalk launched their own respective TV ad campaigns – with Korean celebrities as the main star for both companies – now they have moved on to rolling out promotions for...
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