By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mega-popular card battle game Rage Of Bahamut has passed the 10 million user mark, maker Cygames announced today. The company reported 3 million users for their flagship titles just 3 months ago – in other words, users are going totally nuts over the Mobage game. In Korea alone Rage Of...
Surprise in Japan’s social gaming industry today: DeNA announced it plans to acquire a 20.03% stake in Tokyo-based Cygames, the company behind card battle game mega hit Rage Of Bahamut. The deal is scheduled to close next month. Mobage operator DeNA is ready to pay a whopping US$92 million (7...
Tokyo-based Cygames, the maker behind super-successful social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut, just announced that its biggest smash hit is now available on Mobage China. Generally speaking, DeNA is extremely quiet when it comes to the performance of the Mobage brand in China, but it recently came...
Rage Of Bahamut is being advertised on Japanese TV again. As I previously mentioned, TV commercials for social games are not really rare in this country, especially for the Mobage and GREE platforms and selected individual titles. Rage Of Bahamut’s first TV commercial was broadcast in...
Rage Of Bahamut is getting a Korean version. Just like with the Japanese original and the English-language follow-up, maker Cygames has chosen Mobage as the distribution platform. DeNA and their local partner Daum, a major online portal, have started offering Rage Of Bahamut on the jointly operated...
Social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut racked up 3 million players outside Japan, maker Cygames announced today. The Mobage title hit 2 million users outside this country on July 10, meaning it took just 28 days to add the third million. Inside Mobage’s Japanese platform, Rage of Bahamut has...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry