Puzzle & Dragons maker’s four games each net close to US$1M a month
Apart from the obvious Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo Entertainment’s money-makers are Princess Punt Sweets, Summons Board, Ragnarok Online/Odyssey titles Image credit: GungHo Entertainment GungHo...
View ArticleFable Age: More light reading than actual epic
This iOS diversion sticks true to its RPG free-to-play mobile roots and doesn’t do much to reinvigorate the formula, and take advantage of its fairy tale trappings In a nutshell: If you’ve played a...
View ArticleIn Apple and Google’s race for mobile gaming dominance, who’s leading?
Both companies entice developers like Gameloft and EA with platform exclusivity and sweet positions on online store landing pages The App Store showcased Cut The Rope 2 exclusively for three months,...
View ArticleThis is the world’s dumbest app and it has raised US$1205 on Kickstarter!
Called LookFor, this app allows users to flash a particular colour via their phones to stand out in a crowd so that their friends can easily find them For every Kickstarter project that focuses on the...
View ArticleFood Social wants to be the de facto app for Malaysian foodies
Combining social media nuances with a huge emphasis on local dining culture, this Android app aims to bring food lovers and restaurant owners together From L to R: Kay Kastum and Kenny Hew, the...
View ArticleNet profit of Angry Birds creator drops more than 50 per cent
Rovio’s profit falls from US$76.8 million in 2012 to US$37.3 million in 2013; company focused on merchandising and opening parks in China You don’t need us to tell you that the Angry Birds franchise is...
View ArticleChina’s Yodo1 to bring Cut The Rope titles to KakaoTalk
Mobile publisher teams up with game developer ZeptoLab to push games out to China and possibly other regions As subtle as a sledgehammer. Image credit: Yodo1 Update - Cut The Rope: Time Travel will not...
View ArticleGameloft’s Q1 revenue goes up four per cent worldwide
Its top games in the Southeast Asian market include Asphalt 8 and Despicable Me: Minion Rush Gameloft may be one of the largest and oldest mobile game publishers on the planet; it’s so big that it has...
View ArticleWhat are the top iOS and Android games for March?
As King’s Candy Crush Saga, Supercell’s Clash of Clans and Gungho’s Puzzle & Dragons were involved, a new indie-like title joined the fray: Smash Hit This game took March by surprise on the App...
View ArticleKamcord records US$7.1M funding to make Asia its playground
This San Francisco-based platform allows mobile gamers to record gameplay and share it with others. How will it shake Asia? San Francisco-based iOS and Android mobile gameplay recording and sharing...
View ArticleWhy Cooliris is finally on Android
The answer to the photo sharing app’s motivations is a four-letter-word that starts with the letter A It is almost as if Asia is synonymous with Android. Yet, with 72 per cent market share in Southeast...
View ArticleChina’s top three telcos team up to publish 100 mobile games by 2015
China Unicom, China Telecom and China Mobile form partnership. The trio aims to achieve US$160,000 in sales per title As reported earlier, Chinese companies like Tencent are getting a huge mobile...
View ArticleNintendo treads into the smartphone and interactive collectible market
The company plans to launch a smartphone service that complements its upcoming Wii U racer Mario Kart 8, and capitalises on its Nintendo Figurine Platform idea Nintendo released its financial results...
View ArticleBrave Frontier publishers to file for IPO before 2014 ends
CEO Hironao Kunimitsu has yet to reveal which country Gumi Inc will file it in; Brave Frontier series will be turned to an anime Gumi wishes to go IPO before the year ends. Also, Brave Frontier may be...
View ArticleRecord Run: Scratched Disc
Harmonix’s action running mobile effort proves entertaining in quick bursts, but is expensive to commit in the long haul unless you’re REALLY into music Get enough in-sync dodges, and you’ll enter this...
View ArticleInsanely hard Flappy Bird to make a comeback this August
The app created by Vietnamese game designer Dong Nguyen will add in multiplayer and be ‘less addictive’ The original game in its masochistic glory. We’re positive that a whole number of smartphone app...
View ArticleAfter GrabTaxi, here comes GrabCar for the posh
With its tagline ‘Leave The Driving To Us’, Grabtaxi’s cousin app gives you a car lift during the busiest hours for a premium price The GrabTaxi guys (or MyTeksi for you Malaysian readers) aren’t going...
View ArticlePremium vs. Freemium: Words of wisdom from Witching Hour Studios
Understand the kind of game you want to make, its demographic, economics and goals before you opt for a model: Co-founder Ian Gregory Witching Hour Studio’s next title called Romans In My Carpet will...
View ArticleWhat global-local companies can learn from the Brave Frontier makers
Gumi Asia Head of Operations Ronnie Tan says the synergy between international offices and the values practised is what sets it apart The mobile RPG Brave Frontier has done steadily well ever since the...
View ArticleUnreal Engine creators now have their own Flappy Bird clone
A single artist from the team has created clone Tappy Chicken to show the flexibility of the company’s game-making engine The Flappy Bird app phenomenon may be long gone, but there are others who are...
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