PlayStation 4 India Launch Set

DEC. 19, 2013 • The next market to get a PlayStation 4 launch will be India on Jan. 6. Sony Computer Entertainment’s new console will retail there for Rs 39,990 ($640). The 12GB PlayStation 3 sells in India for Rs 17,000 ($272), and the 500GB model at Rs 22,990 ($368). The optional PlayStation Eye will sell for Rs 4,990 ($80). First-party PlayStation 4 titles are priced at Rs 3,999 ($64). Sony will launch the console in India with a line-up of 22 first- an.....

Dota 2 Officially Launches

DEC. 18, 2013 • Access to Dota 2 is now open to all players. Last July Valve ended the Dota 2 beta and officially launched the game – sort of. The virtual gates to the game servers were not thrown wide open. Instead, Valve launched with a gatekeeping system. Players had to register on a Launch Queue from which Valve would approve batches of registrants to access Dota 2. The reasons given were to better evaluate server capacity, add players into the game in a m.....

Samsung Shifts to Vietnam

DEC. 16, 2013 • Vietnam is becoming the smartphone manufacturing preference for Samsung Electronics Co. The South Korean company currently has 13 manufacturing facilities in China but is leading a wave of Korean firms that are shifting their production to Vietnam. According to the Vietnamese government, South Korean firms had cleared 3,400 investment projects in Vietnam as of August, the fourth highest total. Last March, Samsung started construction on a plant a.....

Strong November Video Game Hardware and Software Sales

DEC. 13, 2013 • With two new console introductions driving consumer demand the month of November turned out to be a robust month for U.S. video game hardware and software sales. Some of that was no surprise as it was already disclosed that PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One had already crossed sales of more than 2 million units each globally. What was something different is that Nintendo o.....

Blade & Soul A Hit in China

DEC. 6, 2013 • After 18 months of release in South Korea NCsoft’s Blade & Soul entered open beta in China to great success with more than 150 million users registered. The martial arts-themed MMO was heavily localized for the Chinese market by Tencent Holdings Limited, with ambitious voice acting in Mandarin and art changes in order to soften the 18-plus rating the game carries in .....

PlayStation 4 Launch Sales Top 2.1 Million

DEC. 3, 2013 • As of December 1 the PlayStation 4 launch sales had topped more than 2.1 million units. Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) says 1.4 million of those units were sold in the U.S. and Latin America, with the remaining 700,000 distributed by SCE Europe, which includes Australia and New Zealand. According to Gfk Chart-Track, 250,000 PS4s were sold in the United Kingdom during the first 48 hours after its Nov. 29 launch, which makes the system the fastes.....

Mobile Gaming Market in China is Growing

NOV. 26, 2013 • The mobile gaming market in China is expected to reach 10.9 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) in 2013, of which 74% of that revenue is generated on smartphones. The estimates were provided by Baidu, Inc. senior vice president of strategy Sun Zude in an interview with China’s Internet Data Research Information Centre. Baidu is the Chinese equivalent of Google that was founded in 2000 and is the leading search service in the country. The company is.....

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