19.09.2009
After two days of meeting with fellow game developers and publishers, several top names in the industry took time off on a Saturday to speak with students from Singapore about...
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Free-to-play online games
18.09.2009
Free-to-play online games are set to be more popular, according to a panel of game company executives from Asia and Europe here at the Games Convention Asia (GCA) in Singapore....
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Casual games are different
18.09.2009
Think about your audience.
That was the first lesson in making casual games from Christopher Natsuume, creative director of indie developer Boomzap Entertainment. A former...
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Chinese game market to grow despite...
18.09.2009
Despite a strict regime regarding games and how they are sold and played, China is expected to grow fast as a gaming industry in the coming years.
Online game revenue will...
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Jump into a virtual Temasek
18.09.2009
A new online role-playing game unveiled at the Games Convention Asia today aims to shine the light on a little-known part of Singapore's history - that it was a bustling...
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Ian Livingstone: Cultural differences...
18.09.2009
Just months after Eidos Interactive - the people behind Tomb Raider - got bought over by Japan's Square Enix, it is perhaps apt to ask Eidos life president and gaming industry...
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Singapore opens a Game Box for local...
17.09.2009
How do you get your games to take off when nobody knows about them?
One way, if you take Singapore as an example, is to let people play them for free at arcade centres. That...
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Light at the end of the tunnel?
16.09.2009
Recession-proof is the way many people describe the game industry. Who doesn't need to take a break from reality and jump into a game world once in a while, they say.
But...
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DIY content boost games
16.09.2009
When Halo 3 was launched in September 2008, something happened that probably surprised even its creators.
It was not that sales rocketed through the roof for the...
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Controversies with virtual items
14.09.2009
Like it or not, transactions in virtual items a reality in many online games today.
Sometimes, there is virtual money for trading in virtual items, such as in Maple Story....
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