By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Every once in a while, I am seeing alarmist tweets or reports that indicate the number of Facebook users in a certain territory has “dramatically dropped” in a very short period of time. In the case of Japan, the last time this made the rounds in social media and elsewhere was in June...
Japan’s Mobile Content Forum (MCF) has issued a new report that includes a number of interesting statistics on this country’s mobile industry. According to the MCF, Japan’s market for mobile gaming reached roughly US$5.1 billion in 2012. I translated the key information of the...
For everybody expecting game-related stuff: sorry to hijack the site for this post - this might happen more often in the future. Both projects would need to get started as soon as possible and require somebody living in Tokyo for various reasons. The budget is limited. Needless to say, proposals to...
EA Japan is currently developing Tetris Monsters, a puzzle/RPG hybrid that’s scheduled to hit iOS this summer (the game hasn’t been announced for other markets – or Android – yet). Details are scarce at the moment, but Tetris Monsters will come with the official Tetris...
“GxYz”, the joint venture GREE (3632) and Yahoo Japan established back in February this year, has released its first game. “Driland – Devil King Army vs. Men Of Valor” (a rough translation of the title) is a spin off of social card battler Driland (aka Doliland), GREE’s...
Japan’s most popular smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has been gaining one million registered users domestically every three weeks or so 15 times in a row to currently boast 17 million. Last month, maker GungHo (3765) said the title has over one million players in South Korea. But so far, the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry