By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mixi (2121) still hasn’t given an official reason why Apple pulled its mega hit Monster Strike from the Japanese App Store over the weekend (they are not obliged to), but the answer seems to be relatively simple. As I mentioned on Saturday (the day the app went offline), the official Monster...
Update: The app returned early Sunday morning Japanese time. Monster Strike, the current top mobile game in Japan in terms of sales, has disappeared from the Japanese App Store today (Saturday Japan time). It wasn’t operator Mixi (2121) that pulled the app, but it seems that Apple just...
Monster Strike continues to print money for maker Mixi (2121). According to the latest financial report released by the company, the mega hit game pulled in a whopping US$378 million in sales between April 1st and June 30th. In other words, Monster Strike made Mixi US$4.2 million per day in that...
First shown to the public in January 2015, Monster Stadium (“Monsuto Stadium” in Japanese) is now ready for release. Maker Mixi (2121) has announced that the spinoff title to Monster Strike, it’s mega hit action game, will be released in Japan on iOS and Android this Sunday (April...
There was a good number of mobile game companies present at the so-called Tokaigi “Japan Game Party” 2015 that took place in Japan over this weekend, i. e. CyberAgent (4751), GungHo Online Entertainment (3765), LINE, or Colopl (3668). Organized by Nico Nico, Japan’s answer to YouTube...
Monster Strike, the mega hit game from Mixi (2121), is finally scheduled to get more international versions. Outside Japan, the app is only available in Taiwan so far. As Mixi’s distribution partner in China, Tencent has opened a Chinese Monster Strike site in late July but hasn’t...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry