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GIA to Return in August
Games Industry Africa (GIA), a news and resource outlet covering the African videogame sector, posted a brief notice on July 1, 2026 saying it is pausing publication and will resume later in August.
- Games Industry Africa (GIA) has entered a temporary operational hiatus and is scheduled to resume regular publishing activities in August 2026.
- The organization continues to provide access to its existing repository of resources, including business news, developer profiles, and event coordination data, during the break.
- The annual State of the Industry Report remains available as a foundational reference for stakeholders seeking comprehensive analysis of the African gaming market.
2025 Africa Games Industry Report Reveals Consistent Growth in the Region
The "2025 Africa Games Industry Report," produced by Maliyo Games, provides an in-depth analysis of the African games ecosystem, highlighting its consistent growth and evolving landscape across mobile, console, and PC platforms.
- The 2025 Africa Games Industry Report, in its second edition, highlights consistent growth in Africa's games ecosystem, providing data and narratives on emerging studios and the evolving development landscape for mobile, console, and PC games.
- The Middle East & Africa region shows robust expansion in the global games industry, with a significant growth rate of +8.9% year-over-year, surpassing North America's modest +0.6% growth.
- Maliyo Games, a pan-African games development studio headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria, is responsible for producing the Africa Games Industry Report, with its founder and CEO, Hugo Obi, sharing the 2025 edition.
Country Report: Cameroon
Cameroon's games industry is small and underdeveloped despite being home to Kiro'o Games, one of the continent's earliest and longest-standing studios.
- Cameroon's game development sector is nascent, with Kiro’o Games serving as the primary, long-standing studio in a market that lacks a broad ecosystem of active entities.
- Mobile connectivity is the primary digital channel in Cameroon, with 14 million subscribers representing 52% of the population.
- Development growth is hindered by significant infrastructure challenges, most notably unreliable electricity, which creates a competitive disadvantage compared to international peers.
The Great Divide
This 2020 opinion and analysis piece from Games Industry Africa challenges the perception of Africa as a single, uniform entity and examines why the continent's most commercially and critically recognized games originate overwhelmingly from South Africa.
- The African game development industry is highly fragmented, with the majority of commercially successful titles originating from South Africa and North Africa due to better access to technical infrastructure and international financing pipelines.
- South Africa’s industry maturity is driven by an established community ecosystem, such as Make Games South Africa, and a history of development dating back to the 1996 release of 'Toxic Bunny' by Celestial.
- North Africa’s development scene was historically bolstered by Ubisoft Casablanca, which operated from 1998 to 2016 and trained 300 graduates, creating a talent pool that eventually formed independent local studios.