Games Development
Singapore's Virtuos expands Asian footprint with game studio in Kuala Lumpur
Founded by returning Malaysian games industry pioneers
Supports growth as development hub through training & jobs creation
Storms announces Storm the World 2021 competition for indie mobile game creators
Inaugural competition offers developers the chance to win cash prizes on top of exclusive publishing contract with Storms.
Level Up KL Biz 2019: Local games development industry keeps levelling up
Conference is a launch platform for regional games industry announcements, including the setting up of a games studio.
Malaysia’s gaming hub ambitions get big boost from Sony’s decision to open art & animation studio
Sony Interactive’s first Southeast Asian games development studio in Malaysia is a harbinger of things to come for the country’s games ecosystem.
MDEC: Malaysian video games sector is maturing into adulthood
In a conversation with Hasnul Hadi Samsudin from MDEC, we learn where the Malaysian games development industry is at the moment, its gaps and strengths, and where it needs to tread moving forward.
Level Up KL 2019 aims to level up
The regional gaming event will now have two days that are open to the public, on top of developers-centric conferences, workshops and it wants to be a regional event.
Media Prima Digital’s IP extension strategy gets Ejen Ali boost
With its first mobile game app reaching 260,000 downloads within 3 months, Media Prima Digital is looking forward to releasing up to 15 new gaming apps, leveraging on both the Media Prima Group’s existing IP and its market reach through its print, TV, radio and digital assets, writes Karamjit Singh.
Ubisoft to open studio in Philippines
Ubisoft Entertainment SA, behind games such as Assassin’s Creed and Prince of Persia, announced it will be opening a new production studio in the Philippines.
SEA mobile games revenue to hit US$7bil by 2019: Frost & Sullivan
The mobile games industry in South-East recorded impressive growth and reached over US$1 billion in revenue in 2014, according to Frost & Sullivan.
Week in Review: Content wars heat up, on all fronts
It has been a busy week for the ecosystem, and for DNA! While MDeC works to strengthen the gaming ecosystem, DNA does the same by adding video reviews in both English and Bahasa Malaysia; and while Astro talks up its content in the face of OTT competition, DNA offers a free PDF download of its Telco Deep Dive 2015 special report, writes Karamjit Singh.
