BURLINGAME, Calif. & LAS VEGAS, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — PLAYSTUDIOS, a game development company focusing on free-to-play casino games, announced that its myVEGAS mobile app achieved the most popular download ranking in the Casino Games category, for both phone and tablet devices, across all three major app stores – iTunes for iOS, Google Play [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean game companies are eyeing the Chinese market as they experience a limited growth in the domestic market due to cutthroat competition. The volume of the Chinese mobile game market is estimated to reach about 3.9 trillion won (23 billion yuan) this year, an 80-percent increase from 1.85 trillion [...]
NEW YORK, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Nickelodeon and Lima Sky launched Doodle Jump SpongeBob SquarePants – a brand-new global mobile app inspired by the award-winning Doodle Jump app. In this 2D level-based jumper game, players take the role of SpongeBob, jumping up and through Bikini Bottom locales while trying to avoid infamous villains, including [...]
ARLINGTON, Va., May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – PBS KIDS has launched a new, free app designed specifically for parents that will give them the “super power” to engage with their kids in the digital medium as never before: PBS KIDS Super Vision. The new app is a first-of-its-kind tool that parents can access conveniently from their [...]
LOS ANGELES, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – What is the best way to spark your children’s creativity by taking advantage of the ubiquitous digital tools? Legacy Games, a global game developer and publisher from the US has partnered with Crayola for the development of a series of apps designed to engage children in the creative process, [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The mobile game industry is raising the stakes to come up with high-quality games with splendid graphic effects that can hitherto be shown on environments like desktop computers or video consoles. According to the industry, casual mobile games which became popular since the take-off of Anipang in 2012 have [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – After the Constitutional Court of Korea ruled that the so-called “shutdown policy” — which had been introduced in 2010 — legal, the local game industry showed extreme backlash, criticizing the decision was a contradictory ruling against the current regulatory reform stance of the government. The policy mandated [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic mobile application businesses started to buckle down and knock on the door of the American market. The companies which used to focus on pushing into Southeast Asian markets have changed their course and are steering their way to the United States. According to industry sources, IT [...]