The biggest gaming phenomenon this decade didn't happen on PC. Heck, it didn't even happen on consoles. The biggest gaming tidal wave to wash over the world can be found right in our pockets. [caption id="attachment_48480" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Subway Surfer, the most downloaded mobile game this decade.[/cap

Call of Duty: Mobile was released just two days ago and it has already formed a playerbase of more than 35 million gamers on iOS and Android combined. After the resounding success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile, it's safe to say that Tencent has conquered the mobile shooter market. According to Venture

Call of Duty: Mobile launches tomorrow (1 October 2019) and yes, it's a completely free-to-play version of Call of Duty with the usual mobile game monetisation system. Not to be left behind, it will also have a battle royale mode. For those of you who don't like gaming on your phones or maybe your phone doesn't have t

A 19-year-old Malaysian esports athlete has been forced to miss out on participating in a Southeast Asian regional tournament due to the fact that he is stateless and without an identity card of his own. AROV Esports (AROV) team manager Danial Rusli revealed (via Malay Mail) that Muhammad Aiman Hafizi Ahmad (second

Analysts at Sensor Tower report that mobile game spending have reached up to an estimated amount of US$29.6 billion across both the Apple App Store and Google Play Games. Here's the breakdown: Compared to the first half of 2018, this is a 11.3% year-on-year increase. Spending in Google Play grew a considerable 16

An Indonesian Muslim group has very recently declared a fatwa, or a religious edict, on the popular battle royale game, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), or more specifically, the mobile version, PUBG Mobile. The group cites that the mobile game insults Islam and triggers violence in players. Indonesia joins

NetEase, the China-based company who will be creating the much-hyped action RPG Diablo Immortal, will be teaming up with Marvel to create new original entertainment that includes games, TV shows, and comic books. The company announced the strategic partnership at its annual games product launch event; it will develop

After so many months of facing regulation challenges, bigwig game publisher Tencent has pulled PUBG out of China. Instead, it's now being replaced with a similar semi-tweaked version of the game dubbed Game for Peace (via Reuters). Why do this? Because Tencent had to concede to government requirements to tone down the

In light of the recent PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds ban in Iraq and India, the Nepali government has decided to lift the ban on the grounds of legal uncertainty. The country's Supreme Court has issued an interim order lifting the ban. Justice Ishwar Prasad Khatiwada told the government that it runs the risk of viol

The Iraqi parliament has voted to ban a number of battle royales on the grounds that they give out a negative influence. The games in question are Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Reuters pointed out that the government believes that the game has no place in a country that has seen tons of conflict, espe

PUBG Corporation sued a bunch of other publishers last year, including Epic Games (over Fortnite) and fellow Chinese publisher NetEase (over Knives Out and Rules Of Survival). The former case was dropped in the same year, but the latter was only recently resolved. Last year, PUBG Corp fired the first shot as it filed

The eCurve Gaming Championship (EGC) 2019, organised by Geek Events, is happening from 23 March to 31 March. The DiGi-sponsored event features a PUBG Mobile tournament and Malaysia's first-ever Mobile Legends Talent Hunt. Professional esports players will also be there, offering mentorship to new, aspiring gamers stepp

I'm not sure if you've heard about the recent news, but a higher-up of our country thinks that the battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or better known as PUBG, should be banned. After India has banned the game in some states, it's to no surprise that the guy explicitly states that he wants PUBG to be ban

As much flak as we give PlayerUnknown's Battleground, we can't help but admit it spawned an entirely new genre where recent games like Fortnite and Apex Legends can amass their own legion of fans and gamers. Its creator, Brendan Greene, should be proud. So it's no surprise that after five years of this, he decides to

Statistics have proven that mobile gaming has rapidly grown for the past years, to the point of dominating half of the global games industry revenue. 2018 marked substantial progress for mobile games, as it reached new heights and became the fastest-growing sector of the gaming market, overtaking consoles and PC. In f

Malaysia's first PUBG MOBILE National Championship (PMNC) recently took place at Sunway Velocity, Kuala Lumpur, with the winning team walking away with a whopping RM20,000 and free one-year mobile plans from Yoodo. The tournament was organized by PUBG Corporation and Tencent, as well as Yoodo as its official digital te

I was stuck again in one of those boring work meetings at 9 in the morning and thankfully, we were given a 20-minute break before I hit my face on the table falling asleep. As usual, some of my colleagues would go grab something to drink while others went for a smoke or paid a visit to the restroom. But mobile game de

Say what you will about mobile gaming on Android and iOS platforms. They're still dominating around half of the global games industry revenue, with market intelligence firm Newzoo forecasts stating that it will reach approximately $63.2 billion by the end of 2018. That may be lower than their earlier estimates of $70.3

Blizzard just announced its new entry in the Diablo series: a mobile-and possibly F2P- action RPG title called Diablo Immortal which takes place between Diablo II and Diablo III. As a Diablo fan myself who used to do Diablo III's seasons and grind for armour sets, Diablo Immortal sounds like an interesting approach to

Just like how Riot Games is suing Moonton over their League of Legends clone for mobile, so too is PUBG's studio PUBG Corp. suing Epic Games over Fortnite's similar-looking mode (that's free-to-play, by the by). The lawsuit in question is about copyright infringement: it was filed in January but was made public this w