Categories Posted inin Business Tencent-, Line-backed studio is bringing a top-5 ranked role-playing game from South Korea to the West Posted byby Jason Wilson August 5, 2015 1 min Another game is coming from South Korea to the West with the backing of one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. 4:33... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Wozlla raises $2M to expand its HTML5 games beyond China Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 7, 2015 2 min The company has a hit game that debuted on Tencent's QQ platform. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Nexon CEO’s progress report on westward migration — and the dirty secret on game quality Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 2, 2015 15 min Owen Mahoney, head of Asian online gaming giant Nexon, is determined to succeed in the West and break into mobile gaming. Continue Reading 15 min
Categories Posted inin Business To succeed in China, game developers must consider monetization first Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 19, 2015 8 min Jeff Lyndon of iDreamSky tells how Western and Chinese game developers differ. Continue Reading 8 min
Categories Posted inin Business Tencent widens its position as the world’s largest game company Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 14, 2015 2 min Online and mobile game revenue continue to grow at a fast pace. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Mobile studio Pocket Gems gets a minority investment from Tencent to move into China Posted byby GamesBeat May 13, 2015 2 min Tencent to benefit from Pocket Gems' Western roots. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Android games will make more money than iOS games by 2018 thanks to China Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 4, 2015 2 min But even as Android surges past iOS, Google won't fully benefit from that. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business The Kardashian effect: Tencent pays $126M for 15% of Glu Mobile Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 29, 2015 1 min Chinese giant buys a stake in the game publisher that made Kim Kardashian: Hollywood mobile game. Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Gaming’s top 25 public companies generated $54.1B in revenue last year Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 20, 2015 2 min Nearly every gaming sector has a representative in the top 10 publicly traded companies except for Web-based social apps. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business QuizUp morphs into WeQuiz to take on the mammoth Chinese market Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 15, 2015 2 min China's most popular game is a localized version of QuizUp, the popular 1-on-1 trivia app from the West. Continue Reading 2 min