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Earlier today, the Malaysian Prime Minister presented the National Budget 2025 plans. This includes funds for the development of esports and digital content in Malaysia. As part of Budget 2025, the Malaysian government will allocate: RM20 million for esports. RM65 million for the Digital Content Fund. RM40 million for the film industr...
At Level UP KL 2024 AKA Malaysia Digital Content Festival (MYDCF) Biz Day 2024 hosted by MDEC (Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation), we attended a panel featuring Hajime Tabata. Tabata is best known for having worked at Square Enix and being the director of Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Type-0, Final Fantasy XV and more. During t...
Famous games journalist and current Bloomberg writer Jason Schreier has written and published several books in the past, including the popular Blood, Sweat And Pixels. Now, he has published an excerpt from his next upcoming book, Play Nice The Rise, Fall, And Future of Blizzard Entertainment. One of the best nuggets of information in the whole t...
In a surprise announcement on X (Twitter), games industry legend Hideaki Itsuno is leaving Capcom at the end of August 2024 after 30 years at the Japanese games company. Starting in September 2024, Itsuno will be developing games "in a new environment". However, he has not revealed where he will be working at after leaving Capcom. Itsuno firs...
Streamline Studios may be in hot water. In a recent LinkedIn post, ex-Streamline Studios game designer Ryan Chin alleged that the Malaysian development branch of Streamline Studios did not compensate the workers it laid off since February 2024; about a 100 days+ since. "Absolutely unacceptable behavior by Streamline Media Group Inc. , Streamlin...
The Malaysian games industry has boomed in the past several years. Many foreign video game developers and studios have taken root in Malaysia, including Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios and even Sony's PlayStation Studios. That's not even mentioning other companies like Bandai Namco and Double Eleven. Recently, we conducted an exclusive ...
Japanese developer and publisher Cygames has announced that they have established, launched and opened a new studio in Southeast Asia with Cygames Singapore. It will be led by managing director Masafumi Chiba. Cygames originally established its Global Business Development team in 2017, which proceeded to launch new studios in South Korea and Tai...
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that they are laying off around 900 employees of its PlayStation division, an 8 percent reduction of its global staff. Several PlayStation studios are affected, with Sony closing its PlayStation London Studio in the UK. There will also be layoffs impacting Sony’s Firesprite studio. Overall, employee...
Xbox has officially announced that the future of the brand will be revealed in an official episode of the Official Xbox Podcast (via YouTube) at 4am GMT+8 on Friday, 16 February 2024. Three people will participate in the podcast, including Xbox head and CEO Phil Spencer, Xbox President Sarah Bond and Xbox President of Game Content and Studios Ma...
Earlier this week, rumours have been speculating about Xbox exclusives like Starfield and Hi-Fi Rush going multiplatform and coming to non-Xbox/PC platforms. Now, Xbox head Phil Spencer himself has broken the silence and finally given out a statement online on Twitter, promising that he will announce the "future of Xbox" next week. In a tweet, P...
Blizzard Entertainment has appointed Johanna Faries as its new president after the departure of Mike Ybarra following major layoffs of thousands of employees across Microsoft just last week. Johanna Faries was previously the general manager for the Call Of Duty franchise since April 2021 and she led the esports division before that. Check out...
Riot Games has announced that they are laying off 530 people, or about 11 percent of its global workforce. In a statement they shared publicly, Riot Games CEO A. Dylan Jadeja explained that the layoffs are happening because since 2019, the company has been making "a number of big bets", "broadening our portfolio" and growing "quickly", with the...
Messaging and social platform Discord has announced that they are laying off 170 employees, which constitutes 17 percent of the company's entire staff. The official reason given for the layoffs is because they grew too quickly and expanded too fast and as a result, became less efficient. That essentially translates to they're not getting as much...
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is officially stepping down on 29 December 2023. However, Microsoft has yet to announce a replacement for the position. In the meantime, remaining Activision Blizzard executives such as Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Ybarra, Activision Publishing president Rob Kostich, and Activision Blizzard vice chai...
Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced that the PlayStation 5 AKA the PS5 has surpassed 50 million units sold. It's now been three years since the launch of the PS5 in November 2020. Jim Ryan, President and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, said: “Achieving this PS5 sales milestone is a testament to the unwavering support of the gl...
Indonesian developer/publisher Toge Productions has acquired Mojiken Studio, another Indonesian developer. In their tweet, Mojiken confirms that they will retain their brand as 'Mojiken'. https://twitter.com/MojikenStudio/status/1727527749617946759 Mojiken is best known for games such as When The Past Was Around and A Space For The ...
Wargaming has announced the launch of its first-ever Wargaming Forge internship program in Southeast Asia. Wargaming Singapore will be recruiting young talent to join a 6-month internship program as Community Management Trainees. Held in Wargaming Singapore office, the full paid internship program will run for 6 months starting in Fall 2023. The...
One of Singapore’s largest video game publishing and distribution company, GCL Global, has announced the signing of a first-of-its-kind partnership deal in the region between its subsidiary Epicsoft Asia (EPA), and NetEase Interactive Entertainment (NetEase Games), a subsidiary of one of China’s largest gaming firm and leading internet technolo...
Virtuos has announced the launch of Virtuos Labs - Prague, its latest studio dedicated to networking, UI, mobile, and optimization. Partners will be able to tap on the studio for support in online services, software development and operations (DevOps), UI implementation in games, co-development of mobile games and adaptation of PC and console games...
ReedPop and the Electronic Software Association (ESA) have announced that both the digital and physical events for E3 2023 have been officially cancelled. The news comes after Nintendo, Ubisoft, Sega and Tencent's Level Infinite all confirmed their absence from E3 2023. They also issued the following statement, ReedPop Global VP of Gaming Kyl...
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