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By Alleef Ashaari|December 30, 2020|0 Comment
2020 hasn't been a good year for many due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the games industry managed to thrive and boom, as more people stayed at home and spent their free time indoors with gaming. The Games Industry Made A Lot Of Money In 2020 According to statistics collected by GamesIndustry.biz and MarketWatch from various reputable s...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 19, 2020|0 Comment
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which began in early 2020, has disrupted the entire world, including the games industry. Events like E3 2020 and TGS 2020 were cancelled, not to mention all esports events that have been affected. Games have been delayed and postponed. It hasn't exactly been all roses and peaches but the brighter side to all this...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 9, 2020|0 Comment
Many employees of games website Gamespot have been laid off. These include the following: https://twitter.com/thewillennium/status/1314259888709615616 https://twitter.com/itsashleyoh/status/1314282289992536064 https://twitter.com/EdmondTran/status/1314334537309024256 https://twitter.com/JessMcDonell/status/1314333647697137664 ...
By Alleef Ashaari|September 23, 2020|0 Comment
Former Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime has announced that he has formed a new games company; Dreamhaven. Morhaime himself will be CEO of Dreamhaven, while his wife, Amy Morhaime, will be head of operations. Dreamhaven will serve as a parent company which publishes and supports its internal game development studios. Alongside Dre...
By Alleef Ashaari|June 3, 2020|0 Comment
Games developer and publisher Double Eleven recently officially opened its new Malaysian studio earlier this year. Headquartered in Middlesbrough in the North-East of England, they are best known for having co-developed or ported games like Rust, Crackdown 3, Goat Simulator, and the recently-released Minecraft Dungeons. Double Eleven curr...
By Alleef Ashaari|May 19, 2020|1 Comment
The video game industry is always changing and growing in tandem with improving tech and facilities like the Internet. According to statistics gathered by WePC from various sources (and published earlier this year), Asia is currently leading the world in terms of overall revenue in the video games industry. The Asia Pacific region reached a revenu...
By Alleef Ashaari|April 9, 2020|0 Comment
Games developer and publisher Double Eleven has announced that announce that they have appointed games development veteran Ian Ng as Studio Head of its new Malaysian studio. The appointment coincides with the official opening of the company’s studio in Kuala Lumpur. Ng's career span over 20 years in games development, including stints as As...
Update: Seems that Sweeney's speech was either misquoted or misunderstood by a journalist reporting for major games site, IGN who in their piece, claimed that Sweeney wanted to keep politics out of gaming altogether. Of course this skewed far off from his initial point of view. So Sweeney has taken it to Twitter to further clarify his stance...
By Alleef Ashaari|February 7, 2020|0 Comment
EA DICE is the studio responsible for franchises like Battlefield, the new Star Wars Battlefront, and Mirror's Edge. They recently updated their official website with loads of new job listings, which begs the question: Why is EA DICE going on such a huge hiring spree? It's easy to see why. The next generation of gaming is going to kick off later t...
By Alleef Ashaari|November 20, 2019|0 Comment
The games industry, and gaming as a whole, in Southeast Asia is expanding at an unprecedented rate, faster than any other developing region on Earth. That's according to two new reports on PC and mobile games in the region from games industry analysts Niko Partners, with the latest statistics and forecasts for the next five years. PC and mobile...
By Alleef Ashaari|November 18, 2019|0 Comment
Renowned British esports journalist and occasional live stream commentator Richard Lewis has called out and criticized several major gaming publications in his acceptance speech for the Esports Journalist Of The Year award at the Esports Awards 2019 last weekend. This is Lewis' second time winning the award, after doing so for the first time in 20...
By Alleef Ashaari|November 8, 2019|0 Comment
Level Up KL 2019 once again played host to the SEA Game Awards for the third time in a row, as the awards aim to recognize and celebrate the creativity, artistry and technical genius of the finest developers and games from the Southeast Asian region, as well as upholding creative and technical excellence in the SEA video game industry. There were ...
By Alleef Ashaari|November 8, 2019|0 Comment
The Ministry of Communications and Multimedia of Malaysia has announced that it is partnering with Sony Interactive Entertainment Worldwide Studios (SIE WWS)Â to establish the gaming giant's first-ever Southeast Asian studio in Malaysia in 2020. This announcement was made by Minister of Communications and Multimedia Malaysia YB Gobind Singh Deo ...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 30, 2019|0 Comment
EA recently held its annual company earnings call on 29 October 2019, revealing several details about the publisher's near-future plans for its existing video game IPs. According to Niko Partners games industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, there won't be a new Battlefield title in 2020. It's been confirmed that EA will only be releasing a new Battlefield...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 29, 2019|0 Comment
Every year, the Japanese government honours individuals for their cultural contributions to the country and humanity, by awarding them with the Person Of Cultural Merit. Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is one of twenty people to be named a Person Of Cultural Merit in 2019 (via Japanese publication Sankei). Miyamoto is one of the most famous figures in...
By Alleef Ashaari|October 10, 2019|0 Comment
While the world was rejoicing over the confirmation of the PS5 (and its official release window), it turns out that something sinister was happening behind closed doors, drowned by all the PS5 euphoria. According to various sources (via Video Game Chronicle), the directors of Sony Interactive Entertainment America (SIEA) visited Sony Interactive E...
By Burhanudin Zamri|August 30, 2019|0 Comment
It's been four years since we were first graced with the beautiful and detailed world of The Witcher 3. To this day some of us still consider it the best video game of all time and tirelessly recommend it to our gaming pals. According to CD Projekt's financial report for the first half of 2019, those recommendations are definitely being listened to...
By Alleef Ashaari|August 20, 2019|0 Comment
NESCO Exhibitions and Electronic Sports Federation of India (ESFI) have announced Game Fest India, which is slated to take place at the launch edition of Hobby & Lifestyle India from 11 to 13 October 2019 at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Goregaon, Mumbai. Over 10,000 gaming and esports enthusiasts are expected to gather at the upcoming event t...
By Alleef Ashaari|August 13, 2019|0 Comment
Last month, former id Software studio director and co-owner Tim Willits announced that he was leaving his company of more than 20 years. He was there for the legendary developer's greatest accomplishments, including the creation of the original DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein. In an interview with Fortune, Willits has revealed that he is now the Chie...
By Alleef Ashaari|August 5, 2019|0 Comment
Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj debuted the first episode of its fourth season on Netflix yesterday, and the comedy talk show (focusing on political satire and social commentary) dissected the many labor issues plaguing gaming and the games industry. Minhaj exposes the dark side of the games industry, especially in the wake of the recent massive sen...
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