It’s pretty difficult (I would even say next to impossible) to be able to track what’s going on in Japan’s social and mobile gaming industry without being based here and knowing the language.
The task gets even more difficult when you take into account there is hardly any source that focuses on coverage of this specific industry in English, with the exception of this very site, Chiho Komoriya’s English page, and occasional updates on Asiajin.
But now Tokyo-based MyNet is throwing its hat into the ring with Social Game Report, a news site that focuses on Japan social games coverage in English.
The site just got started but already has a number of interesting articles on games and the industry in general up – again, in English: