By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Oculus Rift boasts a rabid fan base in Japan, with many users over here setting up communities, organizing events all over the country, and, of course, developing applications for the VR system. Quite surprisingly, Colopl (3668), one of Japan’s biggest mobile game makers (US$3 billion...
It’s been known for a while now that Colopl (3668) added another hit to its already impressive app portfolio this summer. The game in question is called White Cat Project (Shiro Neko Project), an action RPG that is Japan-only at this point and available F2P on Android since July 14...
Colopl (3668) had a good day yesterday. The company first said that its flagship game “Quiz RPG: World Of Mystic Wiz” racked up 29 million downloads. This number puts the app in the same ball park as Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo Online Entertainment (3765). Puzzle...
Colopl (3668), which I last year called the biggest Japanese mobile game maker you never heard of, has released its next big game on iOS today. The company, which is currently boasting a US$4 billion market cap, has very high hopes in the title. Colopl has also produced mega hit Quiz RPG...
Tokyo-based mobile gaming behemoth Colopl (3668) today announced its flagship app “Quiz RPG: World Of Mystic Wiz” racked up 26 million downloads within Japan. The new milestone was reached on May 31. Quiz RPG stood at 17 million users at the beginning of this year. It seems to be just a matter of...
Tokyo-based Colopl (3668), which I recently called “the biggest mobile game maker you never heard of”, is on a roll. Colopl’s market cap currently stands at US$3.4 billion, higher than that of Zynga (ZNGA, US$3.2 billion), DeNA (2432, US$3.1 billion), or GREE (3632, US$2.3 billion). Outside...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry