By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
If you can’t beat them, join them: that’s what GREE (3632) probably thought when it allowed its subsidiary in Seoul, GREE Korea, to use a competing platform for distribution of in-house content – a few months after the company’s own platform plans outside Japan were buried...
Earlier this month, Kabam made some heads turn in Japan when the American company announced an international marketing deal with Tokyo-based mobile game maker KLab. That agreement was entered a few months after Kabam set up a US$50 million fund to help Japanese mobile game companies expand globally...
Business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that Kabam has signed a deal with Tokyo-based (and listed) mobile game maker KLab (3656). Under the deal, Kabam will market and distribute some of KLab’s titles in the US as well as Europe. KLab’s most famous game internationally is...
If this becomes reality, this is surely one of the biggest developments in Japan’s mobile gaming scene in recent months. The country’s biggest business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that a total of 15 Japanese mobile game makers are preparing to join forces in marketing...
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...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry