Tag: mobile gaming

Mobile games distribution startup in Singapore gets huge investment from Sega

| December 8, 2015

goGame is receiving millions in funding from Sega Networks which decided against opening an office there.

While Sega Networks could just as easily have opened up its own office location in Singapore, it has chosen to place its mobile games brand under the control of a startup there called goGame, under its head, David Ng.

The developer has been recreating its mobile gaming strategy for several months it chose to invest in the startup.

The choice will allow Sega, a Japanese company that specializes in video and mobile games, to allow goGame to spend its energies on localization, marketing and customer service, while it keeps it resources dedicated to its own top priorities and strengths. In that light, it has made a multimillion dollar investment into the Singapore company and announced this choice at an event in the new office of that startup business.

Sega has shown a massive amount of trust in this investment of its mobile games through goGame.

Mobile Games - SegaBy the time of the writing of this article, no precise amount of the actual investment had been disclosed to the media. It was, however, pointed out that Incubate Ventures, Japanese VC firm still in its early stages, also contributed to the investment in the startup.

The CEO of goGame, David Ng, said at the launch party that “People keep telling me that I’m crazy. To build Gumi to the global stage for three and half years and then just leave. People said, why did you leave? Who in their right minds would leave? But I’m excited to show you what I have.”

Ng is no new entrant into this space. His flagship product called goPlay has changed the way developers are able to launch, market, and support their mobile games through a convenient drag and drop service that is free-to-publish. Now, with goGame, it is possible for software development kits (SDKs) to be dropped into a game to fix issues or better the customer management, localization, worldwide marketing, payment and even 24/7 live operations of a game. Alternately, if a developer were to attempt to use the traditional means of replicating the SDKs on their own, it could take as long as months, depending on what the purpose of the change is meant to be.

Mobile games fans disappointed by latest Pokémon Go reveal

| December 1, 2015

The newest announcement suggests that there still isn’t any release date for the Nintendo app.

Although there has been a great deal of hype drummed up with regards to the mobile games that will be produced by Nintendo, more specifically the “Pokémon Go” app, the company still has yet to indicate a release date, despite the fact that it has confirmed that the game has been in the development process for the last two years (at least).

Nintendo Direct also hasn’t provided any new Pokémon Go details concerning when it will be available.

Fans of Pokémon and of mobile games have been dying to get their hands on it since it was first officially announced in September, but now all they know is that the app is likely to be available at some point next year. Due to the very limited amount of information that has been released through official channels, fans and the industry, alike, have been circulating rounds of rumors that have made suggestions about the possible content of the game, a likely link to the release of Pokémon Z, and even of the release date itself.

The most recent unofficial news regarding the mobile game launch is saying it will be out on February 27.

Mobile Games - PokémonIf that is the case and it is released on February 27, 2016, then it would mean that the mobile app will be out on the twentieth birthday of the Pokémon game, itself, as the first release of the game was on that date in 1996.

Many of the rumors come with a lot of credibility except for the fact that there hasn’t been any confirmation over official channels. It is now widely believed that there will be more information of this nature available later in December, as the Japanese Coro-Coro insight magazine’s November issue promised that it would have more details about the game in its next edition.

All that is really known, so far, is that the mobile games – Pokémon Go and Pokémon Z will be compatible with augmented reality technology. That has been included in previous announcements made by Nintendo itself.