Money For Nothing
Why Nintendo and Konami need to take heed of Nexon's cautionary tale of mobile failure
The hardest game in the world
Boost Me Up
Directive Games raises $3.5 million
Hong Kong company aims high
Switch It Up
Konami announces 'aggressive' move to mobile
"Mobile games are our main platform now," says CEO
Quality Mark
Nexon sees FY15 Q1 mobile sales up 16% to $70 million
Top of Tanker and DomiNations launched well
More Than Bollywood And Cricket?
Is India the next China of mobile games?
Our Indian Mavens compare and contrast
Seeking A Billion
Japan #1 Monster Strike raking in $3.8 million per day
Touted as Japan's next billion-dollar mobile game
Boom Continues
Despite spending $15 million on UA, Com2uS sees FY15 Q1 profits rise to $25 million
Another record quarter for Korean publisher
Coming Up Trumps
When it comes to Hearthstone's Asian success, Japan is the outlier
Phone version has provided another boost
Long Players
Japanese mobile gamers play 3 times more than Americans
App Annie says Asia eclipses the west
Philanth-flappy
Flappy Bird clone funds Nepal Earthquake disaster relief
Game Studios uses gaming to buy food and medical supplies
Adding Xp
Ex-Square Enix CEO Yoichi Wada joins Metaps' board
Going for growth
Serious Plan
Nintendo to launch its first mobile game by end of 2015
Has plans for 5 games by March 2017
Bigger & Better
How ChinaJoy 2015 will reflect the growing size and sophistication of the Chinese gaming market
Looking forward to Chinajoy 2015
East Shift
Asia to be more than half the world's $45 billion mobile game market by 2018
Digi-Capital research predicts big changes.
Easy For Fun
How ChinaJoy's status as the world largest game show mirrors the rise of the Chinese market
Ten years of plenty
Best Fiends With Seoul
How Seriously is crafting its approach to the competitive, lucrative and culturally vibrant Korean market
Working in conjunction with Incross
Qualified Success
Dungeon Hunter 5 launch underlines Gameloft's relative F2P success
How good is best?
Shake Up
Personagraph and WWO bring private marketplace to Indian mobile ad market
Transparency data-driven approach
Console Boom
Microsoft and Sony return to ACH expo as Chinese console market emerges
China is a new market for the console kings
Hot Stuff
Potential of the Indian mobile game market reflected in success of PG Connects Bangalore 2015
Over 500 enjoy inaugural event
Talent Acquired
Super Evil Megacorp hires to push Vainglory into Asia
Yun sets sights on APAC
Tag Team
Longtu is publishing Kabam's Marvel Contest of Champions in China
The final frontier
Power Of Tv
How Korean user acquisition is moving beyond Kakao
Kyunga Park on a changing scene
Sonic Boom
iPhone and iPad boom in China as Apple pays out $2.5 billion to its developers
China earns Apple $16.8 billion
Making The Switch
Changyou selling Wartune dev 7Road as it focuses on mobile future
Announced in FY15 Q1 financials
Rising Tide
$7.7 billion Chinese mobile game market to overtake US in 2016
Newzoo calls the changes
Top Dragon
Newzoo and TalkingData combine brains to track Chinese games market
New report available
Rim Of Fire
Centre of gravity swings east as APAC game market rises to $43 billion in 2015
China to overtake US as #1
Good Start
New Legend of the Sword 3D rakes in $1.6 million on first day
CMGE's RPG reveals launch figures
Development 101
What the west could learn from Indian game developers
Taking a leaf from India's book
New Frontier
6 things we learned about India's games industry at PGC Bangalore
There's a rumbling in the east
Westward Ho!
Fantasy Westward Journey testifies to the strength of China's leading game company
NetEase makes its case
Big In The Big Apple
NetEase Games debuts its Passionate Gaming Enthusiasts publicity campaign in New York Times Square
Celebrating success and new US office
India's The Place
99Games raises $5 million to target growing Indian market
Star Chef dev sees massive potential in India
Talent Show
Why talent acquisition is vital to India's gaming success
All In A Day's Play co-founder Abhinav Sarangi puts out a call for talent
Growing Opportunity
The Indian mobile market will eclipse PC and console, says Manish Agarwal
Pocket Gamer Connects Bangalore kicks off
Stand Out
Heed my advice and ignore advice, says Mike Bithell
Thomas Was Alone developer takes to the PGC Bangalore stage
Opening Up China
LoopMe to bring native video ads to Baidu, Cheetah Mobile and Sungy Mobile
Adding inventory
Charting Success
Snail Games expands its mobile game distribution with Taichi Panda
Year of the panda
More Me
Frenzoo raises another $1 million to expand Me Girl franchise
Start-up working towards inter-app synergy
Going Global
How YeahMobi is helping Chinese indie developers to monetize and expand internationally
Mixing revenue generation with cost effective UA
Emerging Opportunity
Bee7 and Vserv forge partnership to solve emerging market monetisation
The next billion
Leveled Up
Logres of Swords and Sorcery racks up 6 million downloads in Japan
Aiming and Marvelous' RPG on the up
Crash Dummy
In China, the other engines are still playing catch up with Cocos2d, says Chukong
“Other game engines are still playing catch up with Cocos in China," says Chukong exec.
Cunning Fox
Rovio hires ex-Fox exec Alex Lambeek to push Asian business
New chief commercial officer brings Asia Pacific experience
Happy Sg50
Singapore celebrates 50th birthday with five F2P mobile games
Developers mark the country's anniversary
All Over Now
Shanda Games' convoluted NASDAQ buyout to finally close later in 2015
$1.9 billion cash deal accepted
Marvel-lous
Kabam to launch China assault with Marvel: Contest of Champions
Superheroes to help Kabam break market
Key Niches
Why you should remove Hong Kong and Taiwan from your China distribution agreement
Thinking really local
Strings For Action
How Mech Mocha found the right connections to launch Puppet Punch
Decisions every step of the way