By Tan Weizhen WANTED: Skilled hands for the fast-growing gaming industry, which Singapore has pegged as one of the next big growth areas for the country. To boost numbers, working professionals in non-related jobs, such as engineering, are now being courted. To sweeten the deal, full-time, heavily subsidised gaming courses are being offered to those [...]
FROM selling video games to mobile applications, Singapore’s growing influence as a digital media hub is opening more doors for local developers to showcase their creations to a global audience on a shoestring budget. The world stage is typically beyond the reach of budget-constrained developers such as students or niche IT outfits as they lack [...]
SINGAPORE’S fledgling online video game industry has attracted European animation giant Rainbow, which is investing $25 million to create a new game here. The amount is the largest put into the industry since Singapore embarked on a drive to attract such digital media companies in 2000. Rainbow, an Italian outfit with some ¥60 million (S [...]
Working with the Media Development Authority’s (MDA) Interactive Digital Media R&D Programme Office (IDMPO), Hewlett-Packard is now calling Singapore IDM companies to submit their mediascape proposals using HP’s mScape software. Developers of selected projects – to be annouched in September – will receive an mScape developer’s licence and get to attend a half-day workshop on [...]