It doesn't take six steps to join the dots behind Asian companies' strategic moves.

"Wooga GmbH is one of a handful of rising stars in the competitive world of online social games. It is also the only one not in Silicon Valley."

This slightly myopic opening to a Wall Street Journal article about social gaming and the risks of relying on US-based social network Facebook to provide users misses perhaps the most important rising stars of the gaming firmament: those in Asia.

While Facebook was the subject of a (very enjoyable) film once…