Alan Bowman & Microsoft Asia

MARCH 20, 2008 • Last February the DFC Dossier took a closer look at how the Xbox 360 was doing in Latin America. Another part of Microsoft’s aggressive worldwide platform strategy is launching in major Asian markets outside of Japan, so we were just as curious about how the platform was progressing in Asia. Although Microsoft’s challenges in establishing itself in the Japanese market have been well reported, there has been far less coverage of the launches in South Korea, Hong Kong.....

Music Downloads Grow

MARCH 17, 2008 • Proponents of digital download sales of video games will take heart in a recent NPD Group report that downloads account for 33% of all music sales. The research firm estimates that the number of online music buyers grew from 28 million in 2007 to 36 million in 2008. .....

PlayFirst Builds on Diner Dash

MARCH 12, 2008 • PlayFirst is a venture-funded company launched in 2004 as an online casual game publisher with $5 million in initial funding. At the time the casual game market was led by the large portal sites that specialized in aggregating games from many different small developers. There were some big hits such.....

Majesco Loves Wii

MARCH 11, 2008 • While most major game publishers have found success on Nintendo’s hot platforms elusive, Majesco Ent. has had no problems leveraging the success of the Wii and DS. For the first fiscal quarter ending Jan. 31, the publisher reported net revenue grew 75% to $32.8 million, and net.....

China Delays WoW Again

MARCH 10, 2008 • According to JLM Pacific Epoch, since the end of Chinese New Year festivities on Feb. 1 the Chinese government has rejected two separate applications by Activision Blizzard partner The9 for the World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The rejections were based on objectionable content......

iPhone Success Creates Backlog

MARCH 7, 2008 • Public and developer response to the iPhone is so large that reports surfaced of a burgeoning backlog in processing developer contracts at Apple Inc. Approvals that once took several days are now taking several months, according to AppleInsider. The delays affect new and renewal application.....

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