Regional

Tamatem: Gaming for 18 million users

As global gaming publishers overlook the Arab region’s hunger for localized mobile games, regional publishers are...

Tala El Issa • 07 August, 2016

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Jordan

Zain Jordan wants you to ditch your console and grab your phone

There isn’t a better example than Pokémon Go to highlight the crucial role of mobile in the gaming industry. Several of the...

Tala El Issa • 03 August, 2016

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Iraq

Home or away? The best market may not be under your nose

Starting in your home market is not necessarily the best way to success, a lesson Iraqi-founded Apps Lab learned the hard way. Apps Lab...

Marwan A. Jabbar • 19 July, 2016

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Iran

Iran's gaming market, an overview part II

Such a large market, with a few hurdles still. (Images via Sourena Game Studio) Yesterday I shared some statistics on who is using the...

Hassan Mehdiasl • 12 May, 2016

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Egypt

Zombies in Egypt: Epic VR brings the undead to malls

This was the reaction when students first tested Epic VR in an event at the American University in Cairo. (Images via Epic VR) Virtual...

Eman Mostafa • 29 May, 2016

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Iran

Iran's internet users, an overview

With nearly 80 million people in Iran you can imagine there is a huge internet audience waiting to be pounced upon.  Unfortunately,...

Hassan Mehdiasl • 11 May, 2016

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Lebanon

Growing Lebanon's gaming scene

The video gaming industry in Lebanon is facing a fresh chapter in 2016 with the introduction of new publisher, Morage...

Sophie Rimington-Pounder • 29 February, 2016

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Regional

MENA game makers show off skills at Global Game Jam

Disclosure: the author was present at the Lebanon jam site as a participant with team Groovy Antoid, who produced the game Ugnug...

Omar Al Fil • 09 February, 2016

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Palestine

72-hour gamer comp tests Ramallah talent

Palestine has joined Game Zanga’s 72-hour design competition as game developers converged on Ramallah over the weekend to try and beat the c...

Rafat Abushaban • 04 August, 2015

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Lebanon

Lebanese game developers Wixel Studios targets cancer with new project

  Still from the Aurora game. (Image via Wixel Studios) Despite a growing tech-healthcare sector - which by now has hundreds of...

Maysaa Ajjan • 12 May, 2015

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Maghreb

Disrupt!Games! aims to solve problems creatively

Getting down to business. (Images via Cogite) Tunisia’s young gaming community came together from May 1st through 3rd at the Cogite c...

Christine Petré • 07 May, 2015

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Saudi Arabia

What is the Saudi game industry lacking? Two developers respond

The bar for producing games in the Arab region is at its highest point yet, as more developers enter the market. But a cool idea is not...

Reine Farhat • 12 April, 2015

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Regional

Synthesis and community: how MENA Game participants plan to boost the gaming industry

The MENA region is one of the fastest growing gaming markets in the world - for game developers - and is expected to reach $3.2 billion in...

Stephanie Nour Prince • 30 March, 2015

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Regional

MENA Games Conference & Exhibition in Beirut

The region’s gaming industry has been steadily growing in the past few years. Although some countries show more activity than o...

Wamda • 25 February, 2015

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Jordan

Tamatem Games hits six million milestone but won't be celebrating (yet)

After landing two million downloads in two months last summer, Jordan’s Tamatem Games has closed out 2014 with more big numbers: the g...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 16 January, 2015

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Jordan

Jordan's gaming industry steadily grows

 Over the last few years Jordan’s IT and entrepreneurship fields have witnessed sizeable boom. The most significant of them...

Tala El Issa • 14 January, 2015

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Palestine

Entrepreneur puts Palestine on region's educational gaming map

“We suffer from a deep shortage of digital Arabic content in the region” at least that is a complaint often made by entrepreneurs, despite e...

Eman Mostafa • 04 December, 2014

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Egypt

Saving the world, one game at a time

  Last month, at a two-day workshop organized by the United Nations Development Program, lucky Cairo youngsters got a look at how to...

Hanan Solayman • 22 October, 2014

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Jordan

Jordan's Beladcom sold a virtual stable for $2,200. What does this mean for Arab gaming?

How much would you pay for a virtual stable on a distant planet in a virtual universe? Whatever the number in your head, it’s likely less t...

Hayden Pirkle • 23 September, 2014

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Gaming Alliance Middle East Show Dubai, deadline August 20th

The Gaming Alliance Middle East Show was started in 2008 by Microsoft Xbox Gulf, PlayStation Middle East & Africa, Pluto Games and Red...

Wamda • 13 August, 2014

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Jordan

Tamatem Games' secret to 2 million downloads in 2 months

Amman-based games publisher Tamatem announced last week that they had hit 4 million downloads. When Wamda spoke to them this week that...

Lucy Knight • 12 August, 2014

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Ramadan a new opportunity for gaming startups, if they play their cards right

(Image via ajib.fr) Update 2/9/14: Game Cooks' Haram Al Maarifa, originally slated for release during Ramadan, is now available for...

Stephanie d'Arc Taylor • 13 July, 2014

Ramadan Gaming

Lebanese game developer fights uphill battle despite international recognition

Over the past few months, I’ve heard numerous stories from game developers in the Arab world and across Europe looking to target regional c...

Glen Dalakian II • 10 July, 2014

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Al Mwajaha launches as the QuizUp for the Arab world

“Online challenge games are very popular in the region. However, most of them are only available in foreign languages. That is why we d...

Maya Rahal • 16 July, 2014

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