Welcome to the jungle: 10 challenges and opportunities in the Chinese mobile game market
GMGC 2014 raises a fist to your ear
Opinion
43 reasons why differentiation is the key challenge for Chinese developers
Generic heroines ahoy
Big Games On The Go
Japan's $5.4 billion smartphone gaming market jumped 178% in 2013
Now half the size of total Japanese games market
500 Reasons To Succeed
China's Tencent buys $500 million stake in CJ Games
Becomes third-largest shareholder in the firm
Gmgc 2014
Trends in mobile games advertising 2014
Going native with programmatic sophistication
Gmgc 2014
If you want to IPO in China, you have 6 months, says Ourpalm VP
Market sentiment is cooling
Gmgc 2014
We need to find growth that's not based on more users, says Youzu CEO
Better IP means more higher value opportunities
Gmgc 2014
ZQgame announces $100 million M&A investment fund
Looking for equity in devs, publishers and distributors
Gmgc 2014
Chinese web game developers on their mobile false start
Gamewave, Dovo, Youzu and Manyougu reveal their pain
Gmgc 2014
Tencent aims to dominate Chinese market with new Tencent Mobile Game Platform
Will launch with 40+ games
Gmgc 2014
Chinese developers need to let PC games go, says LineKong CEO
Welcome the new age of mobile opportunity
Boom Times
Chinese mobile games market grew 156% in 2013 to $2.2 billion
Estimated to be worth $6.9 billion by 2016
Guest Editorial
China's mobile gaming market: A quantitative deep dive
Part 1: Behind the Great Wall with TalkingData
Profitable Move
Mobile games generate $100 million for Tencent in Q4 2013
While FY13 revenues rise 38% to $9.9 billion
Big In Japan
Fantastic Eleven kicks off, more Tales from Bandai Namco, and Stardust Shooters' a million
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Financial News
Shanda Games sees FY13 mobile revenues rise dramatically to $79 million
But Q4 is down 21% as Million Arthur player churn
Financial Results
Renren tries to reposition as 2013 revenue drops 2% to $157 million
Games unit hit by $3.5 million restructure
Financial News
Alibaba steps into the Kakao, LINE, WeChat, Viber, WhatsApp battle with Tango investment
Take a +20% stake thanks to $215M injection
Financial News
Kingsoft sees FY13 revenues up 54% to $356 million
Building a mobile gaming platform
Big In Japan
Cross Horizon as cultural litmus paper, Docomo gets Dragon Quest X, and Final Fantasy Agito will repeat
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Massive Increase
WeChat boasted 335 million monthly active users in Q4 2013
Embracing mobile, embracing success
Chart Of The Week
Samsung is #1 OEM in China but hardly dominant
Non-Samsung market is three times bigger
Best In The East
Top 30 Chinese Developer 2014
Who's who in the fastest growing market
Investment News
Chinese casual F2P publisher FunPlus raises $74 million for global expansion
A bet on Family Farm?
King In Reverse
Giant Interactive goes private in $1.6 billion share buyback
Deal values publisher at $3 billion
Big In Japan
Cross Horizon as cultural litmus paper, Docomo gets Dragon Quest X, and Final Fantasy Agito will repeat
Weekly digest from Tokyo
China Gets Its Ouya
ZTE to release Tegra 4-based Fun Box console
Due out in March
Charticle Special
How launching 14 language versions made Castle Clash the world's #2 mobile strategy game
How to deal with word fragmentation
Financial News
Chinese publisher Ourgame rumoured to be considering a $150 million IPO
Following Boyaa and Forgame?
Investment News
Forgame spends $94.2 million on a 21% stake in Tower of Saviors dev Mad Head
Consolidation China-style
Flashing The Cash
ChangYou triples down on mobile games with $600 million developers program
Are you into the CYOU Win Plan?
Financial News
Gumi and Ankama join forces for a strategic mobile partnership
Reading between the lines - expect more Dofus
Inspired
Dot Warrior Games on making the 'anti-Puzzle & Dragons' and why Japanese indies need to blossom
Playing F2P games is a little stressful for me...
Top Ouya Game Asian Deal
CJ E&M gets mobile publishing rights for ChronoBlade in Asia
nWay's Ouya actioneer going mobile later in 2014
Financial Results
Perfect World sees FY13 revenue up 10% to $504 million
First hardcore mobile game has been promising
Chart Of The Week
3 graphs that demonstrate the opportunities and challenges of China's mobile games market
Big, fragmented and in transition
Big In Japan
Rise of Mana good, Million Onion Hotel great, and GungHo becomes national treasure
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Financial News
Giant prepares to go mobile in 2014 with debut Kung Fu BBQ
Outfit reveals 2013 sales up 9.5% to $389 million
Financial News
Qihoo 360 sees FY13 sales up 104% to $671 million
Game operations up 145% to $253 million
Not Just Big In Japan
LINE Cookie Run cooks up 10 million downloads in 30 days
And 8 million of them are outside Japan
Puzzle & Dragons hits 25 million downloads milestone in Japan
Next up Puzzle & Dragons W
Pay Rise
Number of Chinese mobile game payers up 5-fold during 2013
So reckons research outfit TalkingData
Eastern Promise
Why Malaysia is looking to supercharge its ICT sector
Datuk Badlisham Ghazali explains
Big in Japan: Sega Sammy and Crooz take a hit while Mixi doubles down with Tencent for Dragon Strike success
Weekly digest from Tokyo
It's like Chartboost for Japan - Sega's Noah Pass now reaches over 33 million players
51 companies on board
Sega Sammy sees F2P revenues up 55% to $64 million in FY14 Q3
Successful Japanese games spreading through Asia
Working with Wandoujia boosted Carrot Fantasy 2 to 1.4 million downloads in two weeks
App store value China-style
LINE signs up IGAWorks for its Free Coins platform
Linking advertisers with users buying virtual stickers
Another investor calls on Nintendo to 'embrace thematic change' and go mobile
The Big N-atives are restless
i-Free China wins two at JinPeng Android games awards
Demonstrating industry and consumer values