By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) had a busy day today in Japan. Apart from setting up a new Singapore subsidiary, the Puzzle & Dragons company also sold GGF B.V., a wholly owned holding company based in the Netherlands, to its parent company SoftBank (9984). GGF B.V. was specifically...
I usually tend to skip news having been made available in English, but here we go: GungHo (3765) and Supercell, the world’s two biggest mobile gaming companies (in terms of revenue) have entered a partnership. To be more specific, it’s a so-called collaboration, a marketing technique...
Puzzle & Dragons, Japan’s top smartphone game with 8 million registered users across iOS and Android, is buzzing again in Japan. And what a buzz it is this time: I think it’s safe to say that the title is “making history” at the moment – on a global level. To...
Generally speaking, Japan has always been a tough nut to crack for Western mobile game developers: In my experience of over 15 years working in this business, only China is more difficult to enter. But there is also a handful of European and American companies that are very successful in this...
An app news site that gets listed? Japan is probably the only market in the world where this is possible, and it’s scheduled to happen on October 15. The country’s biggest such site AppBank was rumored to be an IPO candidate for quite a while now, and the eponymous startup behind it...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry