The Government is pumping in an unprecedented $250 million to help promising Singapore media companies like documentary producers, music companies and video game developers to develop the industry further this year. Yesterday, the Media Development Authority (MDA) announced that it had committed the amount to help ‘sustain the growth of Singapore’s media sector amid the [...]

MDA offers grants to budding game developers to create games for Xbox LIVE Community Games Channel Singapore, 16 December 2008 – This holiday season brings good tidings for budding game developers in Singapore. From today, anyone with the passion and the talent will have the opportunity to create and quickly commercialize their games on the [...]

Mr. John White, Chief Executive Officer, ACM Mr. Scott Owen, President, ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished guests Ladies and gentlemen Good morning. I am delighted to join you today at the opening of SIGGRAPH Asia 2008. Today’s event is highly significant as this is the inaugural Asia edition of The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH Conference [...]

The Government has poured millions of dollars into research and development for the interactive media industry. The goal is for Singapore to become a thought leader in research in this area. Serene Luo from The Straits times looks at three funded projects that are yielding interesting results. Jazzing up the games sector

In this month’s issue, $12m Awarded to Co-Space™ Projects A Closer Look at the Co-Space™ Projects IDMPO Entrepreneurs Nominated for BusinessWeek’s Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs IDMPO Companies’ Found Success through Facebook

15 projects ranging from transport to heritage planning spur innovation and breakthrough in Singapore’s IDM sector Singapore, 17 October 2008 – Fifteen new projects on the concept of Co-Space™ have been awarded funding by the multi-agency Interactive Digital Media (IDM) Research and Development (R&D) Programme Office (IDMPO) hosted by the Media Development Authority. Collectively, these [...]

sLOCAL Interactive Digital Media (IDM) start-ups and companies will be getting a boost in their pockets from the Singapore government, thanks to the i.MATCH initiative, which is aimed at bridging funding gaps in the local IDM sector. RAdm (NS) Lui Tuck Yew, Senior Minister of State for Education and Information, Communications and the Arts, announced [...]