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It's not surprising that the video games market is being dominated more and more by mobile games. Anyone with a mobile device can potentially be someone who plays mobile games, while other games require powerful PCs or exclusive consoles. The widespread inclusivity of mobile games is likely why mobile game revenue is now bigger than those of PC and...
Former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé is already stepping down from GameStop’s board of directors after just about one year. According to VGC, the news was confirmed in a filing GameStop made to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing lists Fils-Aimé as one of eight directors who is expected to retire f...
Women represent half or more of the global gaming population, but they're still not receiving proper representation in the games industry. The Singapore Games Association, in partnership with Ambassade De France A Singapour, is hosting an online lecture series that aims at tackling gender inequality in the gaming industry. The first session ââ‚...
2020 hasn't been a good year for many due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the games industry managed to thrive and boom, as more people stayed at home and spent their free time indoors with gaming. The Games Industry Made A Lot Of Money In 2020 According to statistics collected by GamesIndustry.biz and MarketWatch from various reputable s...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, has disrupted the entire world, including the games industry. Events like E3 2020 and TGS 2020 were cancelled, not to mention all esports events that have been affected. Games have been delayed and postponed. It hasn't exactly been all roses and peaches but the brighter side to all this...
Many employees of games website Gamespot have been laid off. These include the following: https://twitter.com/thewillennium/status/1314259888709615616 https://twitter.com/itsashleyoh/status/1314282289992536064 https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1314334537309024256 https://twitter.com/JessMcDonell/status/1314333647697137664 ...
Former Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime has announced that he has formed a new games company; Dreamhaven. Morhaime himself will be CEO of Dreamhaven, while his wife, Amy Morhaime, will be head of operations. Dreamhaven will serve as a parent company which publishes and supports its internal game development studios. Alongside Dre...
Games developer and publisher Double Eleven recently officially opened its new Malaysian studio earlier this year. Headquartered in Middlesbrough in the North-East of England, they are best known for having co-developed or ported games like Rust, Crackdown 3, Goat Simulator, and the recently-released Minecraft Dungeons. Double Eleven curr...
The video game industry is always changing and growing in tandem with improving tech and facilities like the Internet. According to statistics gathered by WePC from various sources (and published earlier this year), Asia is currently leading the world in terms of overall revenue in the video games industry. The Asia Pacific region reached a revenu...
Games developer and publisher Double Eleven has announced that announce that they have appointed games development veteran Ian Ng as Studio Head of its new Malaysian studio. The appointment coincides with the official opening of the company’s studio in Kuala Lumpur. Ng's career span over 20 years in games development, including stints as As...
Update: Seems that Sweeney's speech was either misquoted or misunderstood by a journalist reporting for major games site, IGN who in their piece, claimed that Sweeney wanted to keep politics out of gaming altogether. Of course this skewed far off from his initial point of view. So Sweeney has taken it to Twitter to further clarify his stance...
EA DICE is the studio responsible for franchises like Battlefield, the new Star Wars Battlefront, and Mirror's Edge. They recently updated their official website with loads of new job listings, which begs the question: Why is EA DICE going on such a huge hiring spree? It's easy to see why. The next generation of gaming is going to kick off later t...
The games industry, and gaming as a whole, in Southeast Asia is expanding at an unprecedented rate, faster than any other developing region on Earth. That's according to two new reports on PC and mobile games in the region from games industry analysts Niko Partners, with the latest statistics and forecasts for the next five years. PC and mobile...
Renowned British esports journalist and occasional live stream commentator Richard Lewis has called out and criticized several major gaming publications in his acceptance speech for the Esports Journalist Of The Year award at the Esports Awards 2019 last weekend. This is Lewis' second time winning the award, after doing so for the first time in 20...
Level Up KL 2019 once again played host to the SEA Game Awards for the third time in a row, as the awards aim to recognize and celebrate the creativity, artistry and technical genius of the finest developers and games from the Southeast Asian region, as well as upholding creative and technical excellence in the SEA video game industry. There were ...
The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia has announced that it is partnering with Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SIE WWS) to establish the gaming giant's first-ever Southeast Asian studio in Malaysia in 2020. This announcement was made by Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia YB Gobind Singh Deo ...
EA recently held its annual company earnings call on 29 October 2019, revealing several details about the publisher's near-future plans for its existing video game IPs. According to Niko Partners games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, there won't be a new Battlefield title in 2020. It's been confirmed that EA will only be releasing a new Battlefield...
Every year, the Japanese government honours individuals for their cultural contributions to the country and humanity, by awarding them with the Person Of Cultural Merit. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is one of twenty people to be named a Person Of Cultural Merit in 2019 (via Japanese publication Sankei). Miyamoto is one of the most famous figures in...
While the world was rejoicing over the confirmation of the PS5 (and its official release window), it turns out that something sinister was happening behind closed doors, drowned by all the PS5 euphoria. According to various sources (via Video Game Chronicle), the directors of Sony Interactive Entertainment America (SIEA) visited Sony Interactive E...
It's been four years since we were first graced with the beautiful and detailed world of The Witcher 3. To this day some of us still consider it the best video game of all time and tirelessly recommend it to our gaming pals. According to CD Projekt's financial report for the first half of 2019, those recommendations are definitely being listened to...
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