Dealing with 'PuzDra Shock': Why Puzzle & Dragons has left DeNA and GREE reeling
Adways Interactive's Ken Asakura reveals all
Love thy neighbour: Korean giant Gamevil acquires Com2us
Looking to expand globally
Financial News
Forgame successfully floats on Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Shares up 10% on first day
Hall of Fame: Yoshikazu Tanaka
GREE's CEO on the means to social ends
Chart of the Week: Putting Chinese mobile game revenues into context
Doesn't yet compare with US or Japan
Bigger than GREE, Japanese gaming powerhouse Colopl hits $2.4 billion market cap
But does the firm have global ambitions?
App Annie raises $15 million to sharpen its app store market intelligence
Sequoia Capital joins the party as lead investor
Chart of the Week: Chinese players prefer apps over web gaming
Battle of the platforms
Chinese MMO giant Perfect World makes move on mobile F2P
Publisher lines up four titles
Apple's 'expensive' iPhone 5C receives cool reception in China
Just 3 percent state intent to buy
Former Zynga man Schappert founds fresh free-to-play studio
Shiver Entertainment boosted by Nexon partnership
Sony pre-empts Apple with game-equipped PS Vita TV
Play PS Vita, PSP or PlayStation games on the box
Stateside: Nintendo doesn't need to go mobile, mobile needs to go Nintendo
There's every reason for indies to go 3DS
#1 Chinese game distribution network 360 on how it's riding the market's explosive growth
And how western devs can get their slice of the action
Very engaged: Xiaomi's users downloading 26.5 apps per quarter
That's double the rate of App Store and Google Play
Chart of the Week: The decline of US app power
The global village remains fragmented
LineKong CEO reveals Hong Kong IPO plan
Move driven by The Legend of King success
Xiaomi's Android app store hits 1 billion downloads
Generating $1.5 million monthly from games
Gamevil makes its first Companion investment into Korean start-up Relax Games
Splashing the cash
CMGE sees mobile game revenues drop 7% to $8.9 million
But subscriptions are on the rise
China's #7 phone OEM snags Android VP for global push
Hugo Barra joins Xiaomi for new challenges
Shanda posts Q2 FY13 mobile game revenues of $16.5 million
Million Arthur is doing the business
$20 per hinge? Nintendo reveals its cheaper, flatter, less portable, more wedge-like handheld - the 2DS
Taking out some bits you don't like, some bits you do
Chinese web and mobile outfit Qihoo 360 sees Q2 2013 sales up 108% to $152 million
Record income of $33 million
Top 5 things we learned at Gamescom and GDC Europe
Rambles from beside the Rhine
AppVersal on the difficulty of app discovery
It's all about better brand recognition
Mobile payment provider Mo9 closes Series B round
Company secures millions of dollars in funding
Sega leading publisher initiative to create a cross-promotion network in Japan
Looking to build their own UA mine
Hoolai Games bringing web MMOG Wartune to mobile - for China and the west
Promises optimised gameplay and more engagement
LINE messaging service now has 230 million registered users
Including 15 million in Spain
How DeNA turned Transformers Legends into a monetisation machine for the west
#GDCEurope Money maker in disguise
Hook into the Japanese market with cross-promotion platform AppExTrade
Now available through a Unity plug-in
Is Kakao already dominating the market in the Philippines?
Messaging app rises to the top after two weeks.
Tencent talks how to tempt Chinese gamers away from a diet of rice and noodles
#GDCEurope Peng Lu on changing the menu
Transition extended as KongZhong's mobile games business drops 40% in Q2 2013
Still waiting for the smartphone uplift
Sluggish performance from GREE sees FY13 sales down 4% to $1.5 billion
Japan down, but US up
Zhongqingbao expands its mobile reach, gaining majority stakes in More Fun and Small-tech
Spends $72 million in the pursuit of scale
Tencent sees business boom with H1 2013 sales up 38% to $4.5 billion
Mobile QQ, Mobile Qzone and WeChat on the up
Game delays hit Renren as it makes a Q2 2013 operating loss of $34.7 million
But promises mobile investment will come good
Baidu closes its $1.85 billion deal for 91 Wireless to create a 69 million daily app download giant
Highlights the importance of mobile game distribution
Japanese mobile game market was worth $5.1 billion in 2012
Smartphone revenue grew 5.4-times
#1 top grossing Chinese App Store developer Locojoy on why it goes iOS first
Before success, I AM MT studio almost shut up shop
Thanks to international growth, Gamevil sees Q2 2013 sales up 35% to $18.5 million
But marketing and licensing costs knock back profits
ChinaJoy 2013 hits a new high with over 206,000 attendees
Let's do it all again on 31 July 2014
Chart of the Week: Mobage wags its long tail
A third of MobaCoin consumption from pre-2010 titles
53% of LINE's $101 million Q2 2013 income generated by games
Total growth up 67% quarter-on-quarter
China and Korea on the up as Nexon posts $76 million in Q2 mobile sales
Mobile now accounts for 20% of total revenue
Glu strengthens publishing operations in Japan and Korea
Looking for developers to take global
Chart of the Week: More than 25% of DeNA's revenue still comes from feature phones
The continuing shock of the old
West on the rise as DeNA's Q1 FY13 sales up 10% to $526 million
But operating profit slides 8% to $171 million