"Video games will be fully tailored to tell Kenyan stories," says 22 year old Mekan Games founder, Evans Kiragu. Kiragu says gaming is getting so popular in Africa and Kenya is one of the key growth markets. TechMoran caught up with Evans Kiragu, the 22-year-old co-founder and CEO of Mekan Games, ...
GameMine, a US-based mobile game publisher has partnered with South African's Vodacom Group to provide a selection of its ad-free mobile games free of charge to Vodacom subscribers. During the promotional trial period, millions of Vodacom subscribers will enjoy GameMine's more than 175 titles spanning all major mobile gaming genres. ...
Kenoobi Games has launched “Ma3Park Driving Game” for Android and Web involving a player driving a Matatu (A 14 seater van popular in Kenya) through different barriers until they park it Matatu safely. The game has a total of 12 levels and the higher the level the difficulty the game ...
The party that emerges as the winner of Kenya’s general election, to be held on 8 August, has an opportunity to supercharge job creation and economic growth by adopting policies that help Small & Medium Businesses to thrive. That’s according to Nikki Summers, Regional Director for Sage in East Africa, ...
Device manufacturer Asus has set up a gaming tournament in Nairobi Saturday April 8th at Sarit Centre to bring Nairobi's top gaming enthusiasts together. Dubbed the Asus Republic of Gamers Tournament, the event will start at 11 am and will see gamers compete against each other playing games such as Call ...
By Abiola Olaniran, founder of Gamsole It’s a scenario many of us who live in or have visited Africa have experienced: being stopped by a traffic officer and asked for a bribe. Now, imagine playing a game on your mobile phone; instead of cruising through the streets of New York, ...
If you are looking for the ways to play poker on your mobile devices,then you can consider 888poker app as an easy option to get the best poker playing experience. I found it kind of interesting for playing poker online. Thedesign of this app is compatible with all the major ...
Rambo Resource Ltd, a Kenyan firm fully licensed by the Betting Control and Licensing Board in Kenya, has launched GameMania, the first ever casino mobile application on Android phones for real money allowing smartphone users to enjoy online slots machines on the go for free or with no deposit bonuses. The ...
You have probably heard of Twitch, the Amazon-owned live streaming video service for gamers. YouTube has announced it's launching a similar service dubbed YouTube Gaming. "This summer, we'll launch YouTube Gaming, a brand new app and website to keep you connected to the games, players, and culture that matter to ...
A first of its kind hackathon will bring together edtech (education technology) entrepreneurs from throughout Africa to explore and develop new paths and methods for sustainable change in social systems. Taking place from May 17 – 20, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the aim of the game is in the title: ...
Interactive media studio with bases in Ghana and Kenya Leti Arts, has released a pilot issue of its popular comic Ananse: The Origin on Amazon's comiXology, putting it into ranks with comic legends including Batman, Spiderman and Superman and as well making it the first African published comics to be ...
Gaming has been highly entertaining ever since the arrival of the desktop versions of the various games. Later, the smartphone games started entertaining commuters, and the games were trimmed to suit the needs of the smartphone gamers to pass on their free time and to carry out their entertainment. Also, ...
Just recently launched in BETA, Gamurs is promising to be the Ultimate Gaming Social Network for gamers across the world by helping passionate gamers share their content, meet likeminded players, and keep up to date with all their games, in one site. After Twitch, GAMURS is launching to be the ...
African gaming studio with offices in Ghana and Kenya, Leti Arts has won the global final of the Vodafone appStar competition, at an event held in Bengaluru, India on January 15, 2015 and will be awarded an expense paid trip to Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona, Spain. The appStar ...
Kenyan-based social gaming network platform Jooist has partnered with Miniclip SA, a mobile and online games company launched in 2001 based in Switzerland, to distribute their inventory of web games in Africa. The firm is also working on a partnership with Kongregate Games to distribute their content in Africa as ...
Kenyan-based social gaming network Jooist has pivoted from an ad based model to a subscription based model to allow users pay just KES 10/= a day to enjoy over 1,000 games across over 2,000 devices. The firm is also in talks with WeChat and UCWeb Browser to help distribute Jooist ...
Momentum Core and Leti Arts, African start-ups, will this year showcase their apps optimized for Intel® Architecture at Mobile World Congress. Momentum Core will showcase Simiyu the Chicken gaming app while Leti Arts will showcase their Leti Centre. The two apps were developed with support from Intel’s Software Services ...
CHEZA.NET, an Internet based game service from Kenya's RECON Digital has released a new soccer penalty game allowing players to play online or download for free. The game dubbed Spotkick Challenge has been released as a free game app, currently in public beta release for the Kenyan market and is ...
Nigeria’s ecommerce platform, JUMIA has revealed that gamers in Nigeria prefer the PlayStation over Xbox. Ore Odusanya, Head of Gaming & Electronics JUMIA Nigeria said the brand is more widely accepted in Nigeria than the Xbox and he added that the average Nigerian gamer would go for PlayStation. He said: ...
Sony has announced that it has sold 1 million units of its new PlayStation 4 gaming console, just 24 hours after making it available in the US and Canada. Seen as Sony's saviour on its hold on consumer electronics business, the PS4 went on sale Friday November 15. "PS4™ was ...
Social gaming company Zynga has launched in South Africa allowing users to download and play games such as CastleVille Legends Draw Something 2, Respawnables, Running With Friends, Solstice Arena, What's the Phrase? and Zynga Poker. Zynga's launch will give players in South Africa a variety of games to play. The ...
Kenya's RECON-Digital,an animation studio established in 2009, has today launched “Spotkick Challenge" under its CHEZA.NET brand. According to the firm, Spotkick Challenge or SKC is an easy to play penalty shootout game designed to deliver the fun of Online Social Gaming. Players can either directly challenge an opponent or allow the ...
The UOG team Kenya's University of Games (UOG) was officially launched July 2012 by Blaise and Brian Kinyua, Herbert Mbuthi and Joseph Kariuki. Blaise and Joseph studied together at Africa Nazarene University, Herbert and Joseph grew up together. Brian, while in University, began developing mobile games ...
Nigeria's Titi Tilapia, an adventure PC game involving a little fish and an octopus is soon launching on Android. Titi Tilapia for Android is available for Beta testing . The firm announced, "We are pleased to announce that after much consideration we have decided to go with Open Beta Testing. We ...
Nigeria's gaming startup, Gamsole has said it has passed one million downloads on the windows phone store, making it a titan of its own in an industry that is steadily hitting up in Nigeria and continent-wide. Olaniran Elijah Abiola, Gamesole's founder told TechMoran that their games have been downloaded so ...
Facebook has today launched a Mobile Games Publishing platform aimed helping small and medium-sized developers take their mobile games global. The firm said during the program it will work with select game developers and provide promotional support for their games in placements across its mobile apps. It's like finding a ...
Africa's gaming company Kuluya Games has unveiled a new game BEADS, to tell Africa's cultural experiences and norms. To play beads one is required to match a minimum of three (3) Beads on the board: Horizontally/Vertically or Diagonally or Closely joined. Players use their power ups to arrange beads of ...
Image:http://gamsole.com/ Launched in April last year and seed funded by Africa's 88mph, Nigerian gaming startup Gamsole says it has partnered with a global gaming publisher based in Tokyo in a move to up its aim of telling the day-to-day African stories in a unique, fun-filled way. The ...
