The recent string of mobile gaming companies in Japan going IPO continues.
After gumi (3903) and Kamakura-based Kayac (3904) last December and Silicon Studio following this month, Toky0-based Aiming today announced it was approved by the Tokyo Stock Exchange for a new listing on its Mothers section.
Aiming will get listed on March 25 under ticker 3911. (It is one of many Japanese companies expected to go IPO this year.)
Aiming focuses on making mobile RPGs and strategy games for “core gamers”, both first-party and third-party (i.e. for Square Enix, Sega, etc.).
Its biggest hit so far is “Logres of Swords and Sorcery: Goddess of Ancient”, a Japan-only mobile MMORPG operated by Marvelous (7844).
While the company is primarily active in Japan, it has also released games elsewhere in the past, for example for Mobage’s English-language platform.
It grew to close to 400 employees in 3.5 years (making it one of the biggest private developers in Japan) and has recently made the news by becoming the first Japanese game maker China’s Tencent invested in.
Aiming says that in fiscal 2014, sales amounted to US$55 million on an operating profit of US$3 million.
