By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The first “Social Gaming Asia Summit” is going to take place in Macau in November, and as the name suggests, it will be a very Asia-focused industry event. The website of the event can be found here (full brochure download), and it’s still possible to register for it here. The...
Nobody can be really surprised about this, but I myself have been wondering why Japan’s big telcos keep refusing to enter the country’s big social gaming market for years, especially as all three are aggressively moving from data and voice to content sales. But today the local mobile...
I think DeNA has been clearly outpacing GREE lately when it comes to high-quality first-party games. Social RPG “Guilty Dragon”, social shooter “Macross SP Deculture”, social RPG “Valkyries In The Twilight”, and card battle game Souken No Cross Edge all look pretty good to me. And now DeNA is...
And yet another social card battle game from a Japanese maker is going global: this time, from Axel Mark. The Tokyo-based (and listed) company last month announced a cooperation with DeNA for their international business. At that time, it already said that Kingdom Wars will be the first title being...
If you need yet another piece of evidence that the gaming industry is in the midst of a mobile revolution, take a look at the charts below. This first one, created by Rick Martin from tech blog Tech In Asia, shows the distribution of mobile versus console games during the Tokyo Game Show 2012...
Konami used the Tokyo Game Show 2012 (which ended today) to announce an important milestone: the company says the number of registered users playing their social games has hit 25 million. In Japan, Konami is active across a number of platforms, including Mobage and GREE. It recently rolled out Mixi...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry