Live And Kicking
Live and Kicking: Talking 'Super Saiyan' with Dragon Ball Legends producer Toshitaka Tachibana
"As a team, we constantly prioritise the fans of the Dragon Ball series"
Blue Shelled
Unofficial Mario Kart experience ordered to pay $458,000 in damages to Nintendo
Mari Mobility Development must pay five times originally cost
Nintendo Q3 2019 Financials
Nintendo Switch tops 52 million sales, surpasses SNES
Over 300 million software sales in less than three years
Daunting Acquisition
Free Fire studio Garena acquires Phoenix Labs for an estimated $150 million
100 developers now under "Garena family"
Nintendo's Billion
Nintendo's mobile games have cleared $1 billion in revenue combined
Fire Emblem Heroes still leads the pack at $656 million
Partnership
Square Enix and Suntory partner for Dragon Quest Walk missions via Japanese vending machines
14,000 can be found across the country
Sales Spike
Plague Inc. developer Ndemic Creations warns players to look elsewhere for coronavirus information
"Not a scientific model"
New Deal
US and China proposed console tariffs postponed indefinitely
"There's a lot of work to do ahead"
Happy New Year
Happy Lunar New Year to our readers in China
The Year of the Rat begins
Expanding To Asia
Double Eleven to open new studio in Malaysia
Recruitment begins February
Staffing Up
Report: TikTok's ByteDance is looking to make a major push with mobile games in 2020
Two games expected by Spring
Pgc London 2020
Black Desert Mobile reaches 20 million installs, series crosses $1.5 billion revenue
"One of the most popular MMORPGs in the Asian market"
Pg Connects London 2020
Retention rate is key to in-game advertisements, says Tenjin lead data scientist
The US creates 10 times more ad revenue
Home Turf
Nintendo Switch Lite passes 1 million sales in Japan
Console launched in September 2019
Cat And Mouse
NetEase's Tom and Jerry mobile game catches 100 million users in China
Hanna-Barbara title launched in May 2019
"global Games Development"
Tencent's TiMi Studios discuss Call of Duty: Mobile, Pokémon partnership, and 2020 trends
"It is not our first cooperation with Activision and won't be the last"
Turning Japanese
It’s a JRPG 1-2 as Fate/Grand Order and Monster Strike head global top grossing chart
Crunching the data with App Annie
Golden Data
Time for a new free app analytics tool
New ways to track what’s going on
Esports
Super League Gaming partners with Wanda Cinemas Games to expand esports further in China
Over 700 locations across China will be utilised for the events
Cocos Play
Cocos launches Cocos Play for easy integration of HTML5 game centres
Launch your own mini-game centre in whatever app you please
Bang Bang Into The Bank
Moonton's Mobile Legends crosses $500 million in gross revenue
281.3 million downloads since 2016, says Sensor Tower
Cod Go
Call of Duty: Mobile has best launch quarter for a mobile game since Pokemon GO
180 million installs in 90 days
Closing The Loop
Mobius Final Fantasy is being shut down after nearly five years
Western players get longer to see the end of the story
To The Top
Netmarble appoints chief global officer Seungwon Lee as new co-CEO
Will focus on core games business
Famitsu Charts
Nintendo Switch accounted for 26 of the top 30 best-selling games in Japan
Pokemon Sword and Shield continues to capture audiences
"power Up Bands"
Super Nintendo World theme park will let visitors become Mario via wristbands and smartphone app
New Mario Kart ride revealed alongside official theme park song
Moving Forward
Sony's mobile studio ForwardWorks partners with Kadokawa Games for new smartphone title
Cave Interactive also part of the development structure
Inside Story
Nintendo files trademark for Mario & Luigi series following developer's closure
AlphaDream shut down in October following "sluggish" revenue
Bytedance Levels Up
TikTok owner ByteDance picks up Beijing AI developer LevelupAI
Expanding its games portfolio even further
Better Mental Health
China to crack down further on violence in games to improve children's mental health
Healthy China 2030 plan backed by 12 government departments
A Few More Knights
South Korean dev Npixel raises $25.9 million in series A funding
Reportedly the largest series A round ever for a South Korean game dev
Giganta-update
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon plus Sword and Shield expansion pass revealed in Direct
Pokemon Home will launch in February
Hotel Mario
Nintendo's former Kyoto headquarters to become hotel in 2021
20 rooms, including restaurant, gym, bar and spa
Top Trends
Sony's Fate/Grand Order was the most talked about game on Twitter in 2019
Second year in a row
Delayed Release
Square Enix partners with JSC and Gaea for Final Fantasy XV on mobile
Set to launch in China before releasing worldwide
Neat!
Nintendo announces next Pokemon Direct for January 9th
20 minutes of Pokemon-related information
Age Of 5g
Square Enix looking to "relaunch" and expand Indian business presence
Cloud streaming and 5G also touched upon
New Partnership
Tencent invests undisclosed sum in Bayonetta developer PlatinumGames
"We hope to use this capital to strengthen our foundation as a business"
Port-astic
Nintendo insider claims two further Wii U ports destined for Switch in 2020
Super Mario 3D Worlds? Star Fox Zero? Paper Mario: Color Splash?
Cutting Edge
Razer applies for a digital bank license in Singapore
It will hold 60 per cent of the new bank
Big Money
Xiaomi looking to invest $7 billion in AI, 5G and internet technologies in the next five years
It previously promised to invest $1.43 billion
Cut Losses
Nexon sells off mobile developer Gloops for one Japanese yen
Japanese studio was purchased for approximately $470 million in 2012
2020 Trends
Garena's Jason Ng on the rise of sophisticated gameplay on mobile
Free Fire breaks esport records
Big Year Coming
Ambitious Chinese publisher YOOZOO on its relentless vision for global success
Investing heavily in AI, esports and India
G-star 2019 Record
G-STAR reveals 2019 success: over 240,000 visitors attend the South Korean games event
Record attendance at B2B conference G-CON to boot
Kicked Out
NetEase to remove Arsenal football star from PES 2020 in China
Player made comments to social media regarding the treatment of Uighur Muslims in the country
Join The Monolith
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild developer looking to expand staff for sequel
Monolith Soft has been ramping up since the year's start
No Drops Here
PUBG Mobile Club Open Final 2019 draws in 532 million viewers
57 million hours viewed in total
Jackpot
Devil May Cry: Pinnacle of Combat slashes its way to 500,000 pre-registrations
Licensed mobile title delayed to 2020
Oh Dear
Chinese publisher recieves $100,000 fine after releasing unlicensed mobile game
The country's license freeze ended late last year