By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Interesting news: “mid-sized” Tokyo-based mobile social game maker KLab (3656) has entered a partnership with Microsoft. Under the agreement, Microsoft will start offering mobile games for iOS as well as Android by the end of this fiscal year (March 2014) – globally. The company...
This was bound to happen: mobile strategy hit game Clash Of Clans is Japan’s top free app on the iPhone as well as the iPad at the moment. This is not really surprising, as Japan’s most popular smartphone title Puzzle & Dragons is currently running an in-game promotion for Clash Of...
Japan’s biggest smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, which now boasts 15 million users and generated US$113 million in sales in April this year, isn’t the country’s top grossing app on the iPhone anymore – at least for now. As tweeted out by gumi CEO Hironao Kunimitsu around noon...
It is not ending: Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has topped 15 million users across iOS, Android and Kindle devices on June 8, maker GungHo (3765) said today. What’s interesting is that the company is still able to rack up 1 million users in three weeks or less –...
This is certainly not good news not only for the company affected but for Japan’s mobile game industry as a whole: the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) suspended trading of shares in Index Corp., a Tokyo-based maker of mobile games, this morning Japanese time. Details are relatively scarce at...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry