The Room In Asia
Fireproof Games partners with NetEase to bring The Room Three and Old Sins to Asia
Previous partnership with Chrous Worldwide appears to be over
Tale's End
Bandai Namco to shut down Tales of Link four years after first launching
Everything ends on March 27th
Three’s A Charm
Animoca buys Fuel Powered and reveals Chinese CryptoKitties deal
Crazy Defense Heroes also a big hit
Iap Inspector
How does Onmyoji monetise?
IAPs from the players' perspective
All In
Social casino dev KamaGames partners with Yoozoo to launch Poker Champions in India
Game is first since two companies announced deal last year
Everyone's Invited
Sony ForwardWorks launches pre-registration campaign for third game No Heroes Allowed! Dash!
Already cleared 300,000 registrations after nine days
Miitomo Closure
Nintendo to shut down social app Miitomo two years after first launching
First ever attempt at mobile closes on May 5th
Big Deal
Aristocrat closes $990 million Big Fish acquisition
Company has spent $1.5 billion since August on mobile game purchases
In It To Win It
Indian games publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in esports outfit Nodwin Gaming
Picks up 55 per cent stake in local company
Mobile Games Trends
Vietnam Snapshot: Southeast Asia’s fastest growing mobile games market
Niko Partners Analyst Daniel Ahmad on what the charts tell us about the local games industry
Zplay Time
Next generation playable ads
ZPLAY on why playable ads will become more widespread in 2018
Featured Features
The hottest strategy features in the US, China and Japan
How GameRefinery's new tool gives you an insight into your strategy game's design and its chances for global success
Oggy & The Partnership
Indian publisher Nazara partners with Xilam Animation on Oggy & the Cockroaches mobile games
Aimed at a younger audience and fans of the 20-year-old show
Building A Relationship
Lego partners with Tencent on games and potential social network for kids in China
Lego-specific video zones, code-able toys, and much more
Mini-games For China
Ubisoft and Ketchapp eye China mobile market with Tencent deal
Partnership gives publishers access to 980 million monthly active users of Weixin app
Duel With Destiny
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links smashes 60 million downloads in time for its first birthday
9.5 billion duels played, 1.1 billion card packs opened
Nintendo Sues Colopl
Nintendo sues Colopl for $350,000 over five alleged patent infringements
Main problem seems to be the game's virtual joystick
Flipped
Tencent appears to copy Ketchapp's Bottle Flip for new WeChat mini-game
"Tiao yi tiao" looks a lot like Bottle Flip, and the WeChat team seem to know it
Cryptoline
Report: Line exploring the use of cryptocurrencies in its services
Might be adding cryptocurrencies into Line Pay
Go Mi
Oculus partners with Xiaomi to manufacture upcoming standalone VR headset Oculus Go
Xiaomi also creating its own near-identical headset for the China market
Across The Line
Indian publisher Nazara acquires majority stake in sports games developer Nextwave Multimedia
Picks up rights to World Cricket Championship games
Key Milestone
Sachin Saga Cricket Champions scores two million downloads in less than a month
Developer JetSynthesys celebrates with esports tournament
Live From China
Google invests in Chinese mobile game live streaming platform Chushou
Company's total funding to date surpasses $120 million
The Year Ahead
5 mobile games industry predictions for 2018
What will the next year look like?
Nexon Shakeup
Nexon Korea CEO Jiwon Park promoted to global COO of Nexon
VP of business Junghun Lee nominated to take over as CEO
Onmyoji Soft Launch
NetEase soft-launches English version of China hit Onmyoji ahead of full release in 2018
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden can play it now
Pressing Forward
Sony ForwardWorks preparing to push its games beyond Japan in 2018
Sora to Umi no Aida coming to Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau first
Big Ambitions
Nintendo aims high and forecasts 20 million Switch sales in 2018 fiscal year
Sales could reach as high as 37 million
Studio Merger
Nexon merges development studios Ndoors and Nexon Red
Studios to collaborate on game development
Going East
Niantic readies Pokemon Go for China launch
Possible partnership with Chinese publishing giant NetEase
Odyssey To Japan
Super Mario Odyssey jumps to one million units sold in Japan
Switch closing in on three million hardware units sold
On The Rise
Social casinos go East
KamaGames' Sam Forrest says there's money on the table right now as the Asia Pacific market grows
Rules Of Survival Championship
NetEase kicks off $650,000 championship for PUBG clone Rules of Survival
$150,000 for the overall winners at the finals in China
Downloads Out
NetEase's PUBG clone Knives Out surpasses 100 million downloads in just over a month
Cleared this milestone while still in beta
Wrestlemania!
Reliance Games partners with WWE on branded fighting game WWE Mayhem
The fourth WWE mobile game partnership of 2017
Tencent Rules All
Tencent generated 51.6% of China's online games revenue in China in Q3 2017
Beijing-based research firm iResearch digs into the numbers
Shadowverse World Grand Prix
Cygames gears up for end-of-year Shadowverse World Grand Prix with $120,000 prize pool
Each of the 24 players earns $1,000 just for turning up
Hit For Six
JetSynthesys' Sachin Saga Cricket Champions smashes one million downloads in under a week
Currently 90th on the overall top grossing charts on the Indian Google Play store
Food For All
Food Truck Chef developer Nukebox Studios partners with Tilting Point on $18 million UA campaign
Tilting Point to fund and operate UA for Food Truck Chef for the next three years
Downloads Royale
NetEase's PUBG-like Rules of Survival racks up 15 million downloads
Chinese publisher sets up tournament featuring 30 popular streamers and content creators across the globe
Nintendo Partnerships
Nintendo reportedly looking for new mobile developers to work with outside of DeNA partnership
GungHo could be in the running
Nazara Minority Stake
India's 54th richest man acquires minority stake in Nazara for $27.9 million
Rakesh Jhunjhunwala invests in the major Indian developer
Nintendo Switch Sales
Nintendo's Switch clears 10 million units sold nine months after launching
2.37 million units sold in the last three months
Big Indie Pitch
Arcade shooter Defenoid shoots down the competition to win the Big Indie Pitch at G-Star 2017
Dead 2048 and GWARP take second and third spots
Xiaomi Ipo
Report: Xiaomi exploring a potential IPO in Hong Kong with a $50 billion valuation
Could raise $5 billion to help its expansion in India
The Charticle
How does the launch of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp compare to past Nintendo games?
Charting the game's trajectory
Shooting Blanks?
It’s got millions of downloads but what is NetEase's plan to monetise its PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds clones?
First move advantage on hold
Two New Battlegrounds
Tencent reveals two new mobile games based on PC hit PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
One traditional, one a little more action-focused
Go Money
Pokemon GO generates $16 million in tourism revenue for Japan's Tottori Prefecture in three days
89,000 people arrive in the region's sand dunes to catch Pokemon
Hit For Six
JetSynthesys secures 700,000 pre-registrations for upcoming cricket game Sachin Saga Cricket Champions
Indian developer believes it will be the first ever to hit one million pre-registrations