Slice Of The Pie
Com2uS acquires 51.9 per cent stake in South Korean developers Day7
Developer is known for story-based games
The Saga Continues
Tencent joins Netmarble consortium in bid for Nexon
Deal could be made official as soon as February 21st
Asia Insights
Four experts explain: What you should know about Asia mobile gaming in 2019
How to get ahead in China, India, Japan and South Korea
Report
Report: There's been an 80 per cent rise in Western game installs in East Asia
Research from Appsflyer shows a market dominated by midcore and strategy games
Eastern Stars
Is Supercell's Brawl Stars set to rise in the East rather than the West?
Recent soft launch performance indicates Asia audience preference, but is it enough?
Funded
Analytics platform AppOnboard eyes up London and Seoul offices following $30m funding drive
Los Angeles-based company claim $15m will come in off the bat from Breakaway Growth
Gains
Ubisoft's Yves Guillemot: Asia mobile segment "growing significantly"
Digital and back catalogue drive French firm's H1 18/19 financials
Indie Mavens
Should indie developers release their games in Asia?
Our Indie mavens weigh in
Data
Tencent maintains a firm grasp on SuperData’s top 10 grossing mobile games chart in August
Publisher dominates a chart virtually unchanged over the last two months
New Horizons
Shop Heroes dev Cloudcade opens games studio in Pakistan
Shop Heroes developer plans to invest in Pakistan as a new technology hub through the new location
Going East
Ad sales house Venatus expands east with new Seoul office
Venatus provides ad sales services to studios including Rovio, EA and Spil Games.
Free No More
The Sims: Freeplay banned in seven countries due to “regional standards”
The Sims: Freeplay will be banned in China, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt come July 5th.
Smart Expansion
Mobile a key driver for Nintendo's growth in Asia and Middle East
Access to IP leads to strong Switch sales, says company president
On The App
Annual consumer app store spend to increase to $157 billion by 2022
Mobile app downloads will also increase to 258 billion by 2022, according to App Annie
Lost And Found
Nintendo taps up Cygames for new RPG game Dragalia Lost
New RPG will be released this summer
Head Of The Pack
Tencent leads the way in $22 billion spent on games deals in last 12 months
The internet giant participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games companies and was involved in over three-quarters of all games M&A
Get Published
New mobile publisher Habby on the hunt for indie games
Profiling Habby - the hot new games publisher from Asia
Top Dogs
Mobile games spending one-third higher than on PC/Mac, handheld and console combined in 2017
Mobile gaming continues to grow thanks by and large to growth in Asia-Pacific territories
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
Ubisoft In China
Ubisoft wants to make China its second-largest market as it pushes harder into Asia
Eyes global expansion, new tech, and keeping Vivendi out
Zplay Buys Noodlecake
ZPlay acquires indie game developer and publisher Noodlecake Studios for $4.9 million
Helps the Candian developer push further into Asia with no changes to the business
Emerging Markets
Mobile games market rising stars: New promising countries in terms of revenues
Zenna's Bohdan Chernobai breaks down the data from emerging markets
Mobile Esports
The West’s emerging mobile gamer-first market that will power an eSports revolution
Space Ape's Tony Yang offers his opinion on the state of mobile eSports and where it's headed
Rovio Interview
The Eastern influences that inspired Angry Birds Evolution’s design
Rovio's flagship IP is back with a new mobile RPG
Talkin' Bout A Revolution
Lineage 2 Revolution sees English language soft-launch in Asia ahead of worldwide release
Already a top ten grossing game in Macau, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia
50 Million Fighters
Netmarble's Marvel Future Fight hits 50 million downloads as it celebrates two-year anniversary
20 million downloads alone in Asia
Amp Asia
Google pushes Accelerated Mobile Pages to Asia through Baidu and Sogou partnerships
Bringing faster loading pages to the wider world
Making Waves
How 6waves is helping Chinese developers find a Western audience
And bringing Western games Eastward
Jam World
Jam City eyes up IPO and expansion into Asia in 2017
Peanuts game revealed as Snoopy Pop
Easy-peasy
China’s NetEase is now the world's top-grossing mobile games company
Onmyoji, Fantasy Westward Journey and Ghost top 10 grossing games
Looking Forward
Sony's mobile studio ForwardWorks preparing to unveil its first games on December 7th
The Last Guardian could be heading to mobile
East Meets West
10 videos that teach you about the global mobile gaming markets
The key sessions from Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2016
Asia Dash
Sega eyes other Asia markets as Japanese mobile market saturates and game dev costs rise
Predominance of leading publishers raising the stakes in mobile games industry
Pushing Forward
Sony ForwardWorks to release up to six games across the next 18 months
Only in Asia
Making Of
Upholding visual fidelity without sacrificing game design: The making of Oz: Broken Kingdom
This Game Studio talk us through the Asian influences on a Western title
Sony Go
Sony reaffirms commitment to mobile following Nintendo's success with Pokemon GO
Kaz Hirai gets all excited about AR
Critical Funding
Critical Force raises $4.5 million to push FPS eSports title Critical Ops out to Asia market
Partnering with NHN Entertainment to do so
Adapting To Asia
Six hacks to crack the app monetization code in Asia
How to pick your approach to monetising Eastern users
Core Centre
Capcom consolidations all mobile operations to aggressive focus on own IP games
Beeline Interactive dissolved
Sony Goes Mobile Again
Sony opens new studio, ForwardWorks, to develop mobile games for Asian markets
Using PlayStation characters for "fully-fledged titles"
Mobile Market
The global mobile market according to Nevosoft's Pavel Ryaykkonen
The state of the world, and advice for the future
A Real Godzilla
At $6.2 billion, Japanese mobile games market remains global #1
So says SuperData
East Isn't Easy
Video: Kabam's Chris Petrovic on expanding into Asia
"Spoiler alert: not very easy to do."
Sporty Pivot
$26 million investment turns Super Evil's attentions to eSports in Asia
Vainglory creators get a serious cash injection
East Shift
Asia to be more than half the world's $45 billion mobile game market by 2018
Digi-Capital research predicts big changes.
Cunning Fox
Rovio hires ex-Fox exec Alex Lambeek to push Asian business
New chief commercial officer brings Asia Pacific experience
Jobs
King-owned Nonstop hiring designers, coders and artists
Wear the crown
Marketing outfit Crobo opens office in China
Ther journey east
Ukie promotes UK games business in Korea at G-Star conference
Big in Busan
Following 300% Asia growth in Q3, Adjust opens offices in China and Japan
Shanghai and Tokyo are the places to be