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Nippon Ichi Software stock nosedives after Disgaea RPG suffers maintenance woes after launch News Apr 3rd, 2019

Nippon Ichi Software stock nosedives after Disgaea RPG suffers maintenance woes after launch

Game taken offline after March 19th launch and was due to come back online at end of March, but has since suffered further delays

1 Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success? The Charticle Apr 2nd, 2019

Is Brawl Stars set to knock it out the park in China as Supercell’s latest billion-dollar success?

An analysis of the online multiplayer shooter's Western and Eastern performance

1 East Meets West: Perfect World off to a scorching start with $100m in 22 days, and pre-registrations kick off for Brawl Stars in China News Apr 1st, 2019

East Meets West: Perfect World off to a scorching start with $100m in 22 days, and pre-registrations kick off for Brawl Stars in China

Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market

Update: EA's latest layoffs include the closure of its offices in Japan and Russia Job News Mar 28th, 2019

Update: EA's latest layoffs include the closure of its offices in Japan and Russia

Publisher vows to help newly-redundant staff find new roles in the local games industry

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever News Mar 20th, 2019

Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle passes $1.6 billion during its best month ever

Dokkan Battle beats its previous record by hitting $78.6 million in one month

Konami's new high-rise esports centre wants to bring Japan's competitive gaming scene up to par News Mar 12th, 2019

Konami's new high-rise esports centre wants to bring Japan's competitive gaming scene up to par

"Compared to esports pioneers America and Europe, Japan has still a long way to go"

East Meets West: The battle to acquire Nexon heats up, and Nintendo is wary of looking greedy on mobile News Mar 11th, 2019

East Meets West: The battle to acquire Nexon heats up, and Nintendo is wary of looking greedy on mobile

Keeping up with the news from the world's most influential games market

How a China partnership turned Steppy Pants into a number one chart topper in Japan Deal Mar 7th, 2019

How a China partnership turned Steppy Pants into a number one chart topper in Japan

Super Entertainment co-director Stephen Last discusses how a collaboration with Yodo1 produced significant returns

Nexon shortlists five bidders including Kakao and Tencent News Mar 4th, 2019

Nexon shortlists five bidders including Kakao and Tencent

Formal bidding process starts in early April

Nintendo stats and salary revealed for Japan employees Job News Mar 1st, 2019

Nintendo stats and salary revealed for Japan employees

Tom Nook thankfully not part of the accounting team

Report: EA, Amazon and Comcast all submit acquisition bids for publisher Nexon News Feb 27th, 2019

Report: EA, Amazon and Comcast all submit acquisition bids for publisher Nexon

New challengers join a growing collection of suitors

An underwhelming Q3 sees Square Enix streamline its business units News Feb 20th, 2019

An underwhelming Q3 sees Square Enix streamline its business units

11 reduced to four, won’t result in any workforce reduction

PlayStation Vita shipments to end soon in Japan confirming end for handheld News Feb 19th, 2019

PlayStation Vita shipments to end soon in Japan confirming end for handheld

Vita Island is no more

Japanese developer Mixi partners with XTech to accelerate M&A plans News Feb 19th, 2019

Japanese developer Mixi partners with XTech to accelerate M&A plans

Partnership could see expenditure of up to $271 million

GungHo breathes new life into Puzzle & Dragons as MAUs and sales increase in Q4 News Feb 12th, 2019

GungHo breathes new life into Puzzle & Dragons as MAUs and sales increase in Q4

Sales and profits up quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year

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