By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced that it has teamed up with Capcom in a pretty big deal under which the Osaka-based video game company will release a total six social games on the GREE platform by the end of the year. The six titles are: Everybody’s Capcom All Stars (release on...
Hit video game series “Professor Layton” is getting a new social version: DeNA today announced “Professor Layton and Seven Thieves of the Century”, a social game that Mobage users in Japan can pre-register for starting today (a launch date isn’t fixed yet). This is the second...
In recent months, Square Enix has seen great success with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social card battle game the company launched in April in the Japanese App Store. Fast forward to today, and said title is still sitting firmly in the top 10 of the top grossing iPhone apps in Japan. It was the...
There is already a social gaming platform embedded in Japan’s real-identity social network Mixi (on both the PC and mobile versions), but that’s apparently no reason not to open a second one. Dubbed mixi Park, the new social gaming platform was launched today by Mixi itself and Konami...
Famous IP+card battle game = sure success: that’s what GREE probably thought when the company secured the rights to turn manga mega hit BLEACH into a social game. Announced as BLEACHxGREE back in July, the title just hit GREE on smartphones and feature phones as BLEACH – Soul Masters. I...
It seems like GREE‘s housecleaning wasn’t over: the company is shutting down yet another one of their first-party games, social card battle game Majin Kingdom. In the fantasy title, players enter a “Summons School”, collect God/Devil/Hero cards, team up with other...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry