Zynga will start selling prepaid cards containing credit for its in-game currency in six Asian countries from today. The San Francisco social gaming giant is partnering Malaysian company MOL to sell the cards, known as Zynga Game Cards. The cards will be available in more than 500,000 MOL outlets in Malaysia, Singapore, India, Indonesia, Philippines Read the full article…

Facebook has announced that as of July 1, social game developers using the service will be required to adopt Facebook Credits as one of their payment channels. It’s currently being used by at least 350 games from 150 developers. Despite being in beta for the past several months, Facebook Credits has made up more than Read the full article…

As the founder of Perimeter Partners, Jason Della Rocca (pictured) has provided guidance on strategy for video games industries across the world. The former executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) was in Putrajaya, Malaysia, as a speaker for the Kre8tif Digital Content Conference organised by MSC Malaysia and the Multimedia Development Corporation Read the full article…

The second panel discussion for echelon 2010 on Day 2 talks about Social Gaming – How a Fast Rising Global Phenomenon is Developing in Asia. Nicholas started the discussion by seeking clarification for the term “social gaming”. It seems that the definition of social gaming is crumbling, as proposed by Benjamin, as people are able to play Read the full article…

Social gaming in Asia has grown with the proliferation of Facebook while other social networks, such as Friendster and Myspace, seek to follow suit in satisfying the MMOG craze. Could the draw of social networks no longer be on building online friendships but more on gaming? Inside Facebook took a closer look at Facebook’s growth Read the full article…

Ulf Waschbusch, the former Director of MySpace Mobile, will be joining Singapore based gaming startup Garena as their Chief Product Officer. Garena operates one of the world’s leading online competitive e-sports hub for gamers to compete against each other wherever they are in the world by transforming the internet into a massive virtual cybercafe. Founded Read the full article…

It seems like they did, though the official announcement has not been made yet. Judging from the footer of this page, it is quite clear that Ubisoft has in fact acquired Pokerama. Pokerama was the first Made-in-Singapore game out of Game Ventures, a company building social gaming based products. Their other sites include xuqa.com, the Read the full article…