By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
If there is one mobile game out there now that people in Japan will remember in 10 years, it’s Puzzle & Dragons. Maker GungHo is now worth a staggering US$10 billion, thanks to a single game that sees sales of US$62-86 million (per month) and racked up 12 million users after 14 months by...
There is no end to the Puzzle & Dragons hype in Japan, it seems. The country’s top smartphone game now has over 12 million users, is generating a staggering US$62-86 million – per month, and has been advertised with a new campaign on national TV since the end of March. Maker GungHo...
Puzzle/RPG hybrid Puzzle & Dragons and messenger app LINE aren’t the only hypes in Japan’s smartphone world right now. The third big name that must be mentioned in this context is “Nameko Saibai”, a series of super-quirky smartphone games that center on cute mushroom...
The World Online Gambling Law Report is organizing an event focusing on the global social gaming and social gambling industries next month. Named “Social Gaming 2013”, the event will take place on May 23 in London. (Please note that as stated on the conference’s website, the...
The hype around Japan’s most popular mobile game Puzzle & Dragons, which is estimated to generate a mind-blowing US$62-86 million per month (or more) in sales, continues. According to maker GungHo, the RPG/puzzle hybrid now boasts 12 million registered players in Japan (the company...
According to data released by Tokyo-based game magazine publisher Enterbrain (published in business daily The Nikkei over the weekend), the Japanese market for video games grew 1.2% to US$4.6 billion in fiscal 2012 – which ended on March 31, 2013. Software sales contracted 1.2% to US$2.8...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry