Posts Categorized: Gaming



Tencent Plans Three-Pronged Attack to Monetize WeChat

Tencent’s WeChat mobile chat application has been taking the world — especially China &#...

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  • March 22, 2013
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Tencent: Mobile Gaming Platform For WeChat to Begin Testing Soon

Tencent’s (HKG:0700) full-year 2012 financials came out this evening, showing that the web gia...

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  • March 20, 2013
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MOL Acquires AyoPay, Confirms Indonesia is Top Priority This Year

Malaysia’s leading payment service giant, MOL, has acquired Indonesia’s AyoPay for an un...

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  • March 20, 2013
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Check Out the Biggest Winners and Losers among Chinese Web IPOs (CHART)

One is worth thousands of percent more today than when it IPO’d, while another is worth a mere...

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  • March 19, 2013
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Nonstop Games Raises $2.9 Million, Makes Singapore Home

Singapore-based Nonstop Games has raised a $2.9 million seed round led by Creandum and Lifeline Vent...

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  • March 19, 2013
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Agate Jogja Releases 23rd Titok Game Title, This Time Inspired by Russian Meteor

Indonesian game developer Agate Jogja, which is part of Agate Alliance, announced today that the com...

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  • March 15, 2013
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Four Reasons Online Games Block Chinese IPs

As I’ve said before, being a gamer in China isn’t always fun. Chinese publishers’ ...

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  • March 15, 2013
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Line’s Now Got 120 Million Users And Line Play Rocks Southeast Asia

Japan-based app Line announced today that the company has reached another milestone by hitting the 1...

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  • March 13, 2013
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Chinese Teen Murders His Parents So He Can Play Web Games in Peace

Li Tao was in middle school when he first got into web games. His parents, poor Henan farmers, worri...

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  • March 21, 2013
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Hailing WeChat and Mobile Progress, Tencent Posts $7 Billion in 2012 Revenues

Hong Kong markets have just closed, and Tencent (HKG:0700), China’s biggest web company, has relea...

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  • March 20, 2013
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How to Stop Chinese Copycats from Stealing Your App

On Monday, my colleague Steven wrote about a cool new gaming platform inside of WeChat, and in the c...

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  • March 20, 2013
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Indonesia Loves to Guess: See Which Locally-Made Game Booted WeChat from Top Spot on iOS

Do you guys remember the Indonesian game Icon Pop Quiz which received props from Korean singer PSY i...

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  • March 19, 2013
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HTML5 Gaming Inside WeChat

An Experiment in HTML5 Gaming Inside WeChat

We get the feeling that the hugely popular messaging app WeChat will eventually move into social gam...

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  • March 18, 2013
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Games Still Going Strong, VNG Reports Over $90 million In Revenue For 2012

Vietnam’s VNG just reported that it hit a whopping VND 2 trillion ($90 million) in revenue for 201...

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  • March 15, 2013
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GREE Games Put Up Some Impressive Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]

You probably already know that Japan’s GREE is a mobile gaming giant. But just how giant is gi...

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  • March 14, 2013
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Report: China Lacks Games for Kids

If there’s one thing kids love, it’s video games. Unfortunately, lots of really fun vide...

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  • March 13, 2013
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