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Retail Asia28/02/2024

Remember the Pokémon GO craze that got people all over the planet to go haywire? Well, another Pokémon game is coming to your mobile phone this year: the Pokémon Trading Game Card. Shares in Japan’s developer DeNA jumped 24% in Tokyo trading after the gaming company said it will launch a mobile version of the […]

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Retail Asia26/06/2023

YouTube is testing a product for playing online video games. YouTube’s plan to stretch beyond hosting video content and into sharing video games was the subject of an email sent to Google employees. The product already has a name, Playables, which will allow users to access games on mobile devices or desktop computers. The email […]

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Retail Asia02/04/2023

Since its inception in 2003, BetConstruct has taken the iGaming industry by storm, maintaining a top position as one of the world’s foremost gaming service providers. The London-based firm has grown from a purely Asian-focused company to an industry powerhouse with international outlook. Over the past 20 years, BetConstruct has expanded its innovative technology to […]

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Retail Asia26/03/2023

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The Ministry of Information and Communications said it will deploy solutions to block the payment for unauthorized games in the country. There are hundreds of thousands of unauthorized games, card games, and gambling games which cause insecurity and disorder as well as bad consequences for the society, the ministry’s Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information […]

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Retail Asia20/09/2022

Over recent years, Burmese casino players have had several options to help them enjoy the thrill of online gaming. With the number of online casinos available in Myanmar, it may not be easy to pick the right choice. Let’s take a look at the dynamics of online gaming in Myanmar. How to Open an Online […]

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Retail Asia23/03/2022

According to Statista, the global online gambling market is expected to grow to more than $92.9 billion by 2023. As of 2021, the total market size is valued at $59 billion, meaning the industry’s size will double in the next few years. So, what sustains the popularity and growth of the online casino industry? Aside […]

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Retail Asia10/02/2022

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Play-to-Earn games where participants convert digital credits into real-world money are gaining in popularity and are the gaming industry’s next big thing. Blockchain-based technology is upending the gaming industry. Until recently, regular games didn’t offer monetary compensation to gamers. Instead, proceeds flowed to game platforms. These new types of play-to-earn games are an early iteration […]

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Retail Asia26/01/2022

M1 Limited (M1) has announced an exclusive partnership with market-leading cloud gaming specialist Blacknut, to bring an all-you-can-play 5G-powered cloud gaming service to Singapore. Boasting the world’s largest catalog for cloud gaming, Blacknut has a unified gaming platform that is fully integrated within the M1 ecosystem, enabling users to have unlimited access to more than […]

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Retail Asia08/12/2021

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We live in a time where users demand more and more portability. Smartphones have spoiled us this way — we are so used to having supercomputers in our pockets that, sometimes, it feels jarring that we can’t take our PlayStations with us. However, a new type of product is currently on the rise that will […]

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Retail Asia15/10/2021

In an unsurprising turn of events, Apple Music is about to make its debut on PlayStation 5, Sony’s hard to come by the gaming console. This would be the second major Apple service provided by Sony via its PlayStation console after the Japanese giant offered PS5 owners six months of free access to Apple TV+. Although the arrival of […]

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Retail Asia02/08/2021

The gaming industry is a money-making machine having exceeded the movie industry, one of the most profitable entertainment businesses. There are many ways to make money in the gaming industry, but the simplest way is via subscriptions. Google and Apple recently adopted the subscription-based system that Microsoft and Sony have been offering to their customers for a very long time. Xbox […]

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Retail Asia08/07/2021

Well, what do you know? Even though we spent the past two years mostly locked up and homebound (pandemic and stuff), the AR game sensation Pokemon GO not only survived but managed to cross the $5 billion mark in lifetime revenue. According to a recent report by SensorTower, the AR title from Niantic has surpassed $5 billion from player spending […]

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Retail Asia02/07/2021

Just like other giants in the industry (Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA), Facebook has its own cloud gaming service. Announced last year, the closed beta of Facebook’s cloud gaming platform promises to offer a decent catalog of games that can be played instantly, with no installs, while on the move. The service was launched with just a handful […]

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Retail Asia05/05/2021

Today was the first day of the court battle between Apple and game developer Epic. The latter sued Apple after the tech giant tossed its red hot Fortnite game out of the App Store. Apple did this after Epic violated Apple’s rules and gave its customers access to the developer’s own in-app payment platform. Seeking Alpha […]

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Retail Asia03/05/2021

Vietnamese game studio Topebox and its blockchain partner KardiaChain have raised $1 million for an upcoming blockchain game called My DeFi Pet. The investors include Shanghai-based venture capital firms Axia8 Ventures, OKEx Blockdream Ventures, and the venture capital fund of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx in Hong Kong. Vietnam-based venture capitalist Megala Ventures and Chinese game developer […]

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Retail Asia30/04/2021

Nexon has joined other publicly listed companies such as Microstrategy and Tesla in holding the cryptocurrency as a hedge against inflation. The South Korean-Japanese video game publisher purchased some 1,707 bitcoin for about $100 million, equivalent to less than 2 percent of the company’s total cash and cash equivalents on hand, it said in an […]

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Retail Asia23/11/2020

Vietnam has the highest number of adult gamers in the world in 2020, according to a recently released global consumer survey by German data portal Statista. Ninety four percent of Vietnamese said they gamed at least occasionally while nearly 20 percent said they were frequent gamers, according to the Statista Global Consumer Survey. Eighty five […]

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Retail Asia23/04/2020

App downloads have soared during the coronavirus crisis, with the business, food & beverage and gaming categories showing the highest growth. SaaS company Adjust has published in its App Trends 2020 report, in which it compares app downloads data from the first quarter of this year with the same period in 2019. Adjust says business app […]

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Retail Asia02/12/2019

Great news for Pokemon GO players, especially veterans who’ve played the game for a very long time, as Niantic has just announced another limit storage increase for its mobile game. This means that Trainers will now be able to catch and store no less than 3,000 Pokemon without having to transfer any of them. Keep in […]

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Retail Asia09/10/2019

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E-commerce platform Tiki’s losses have wiped out a total of VND506 billion ($22 million) gaming firm VNG had invested in it. As of June 2019, VNG had suffered a cumulative loss of $22 million of its 24.6 percent shareholding in Tiki, according to the gaming firm’s recently released audited semi-annual financial statement. In accordance with […]

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