By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced its social baseball card game “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” hit 2.5 million users on January 8. The game was released on August 18, reached 1.5 million registered players on October 19, and 2 million on November 18...
A nice win for DeNA: Konami has silently released one of their top social games on GREE, namely social baseball card game Professional Baseball Dream Nine, on Mobage today. The game is now available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones and Mobage for Android. It looks like Konami just...
Konami currently occupies the first three spots in the ranking of the most popular social games on GREE: the most popular title is Dragon Collection, No. 2 is Professional Baseball Dream Nine, and No. 3 is soccer card game “J-League Dream Eleven”. And now Konami has announced it filed a lawsuit...
Following the launch in March this year, Konami’s “Professional Baseball Dream Nine” social baseball game for GREE has passed the 1 million user mark on June 7. For a few weeks in March and April, Konami boasted the No. 1 (with Dragon Collection) and No. 2 spots on GREE’s...
Canceled games, ousted star designers, exposed (bad) work conditions: Konami (9766) has not really been producing good news since it announced restructuring efforts around spring this year. And in about two weeks, starting from September 10, Konami Digital Entertainment will close a total of 31...
Just a few weeks after Namco Bandai went public saying they have 30 million, Konami is now boasting a total of 35 million registered users across all of their social games. The company reported 10 million users in September 2011 and 20 million in April 2012. Konami revealed that Dragon Collection...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry