By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
au Smart Pass, a service KDDI (Japan’s second largest mobile carrier with about 30 million subscribers) launched on March 1, is on the way to become a massive success. au Smart Pass is an app subscription service for KDDI’s Android users: for a monthly fee of 390 yen/US$4.70, the...
AKB48 Stage Fighter, the social game based on Japanese pop sensation AKB48, has racked up two million users, GREE has announced. The social card battle game offers cards featuring different members of the mega-popular girl group. AKB48 Stage Fighter was launched last October and is available on...
GREE announced it has partnered up with Level-5 to bring a total of three social games from the Fukuoka-based company to their platform. Level-5 previously rolled out its first social game ever, Professor Layton Royale, on Mobage. The games will be released when GREE launches its globally unified...
One Piece Grand Collection, currently the No. 2 game on Mobage, has crossed the 3 million user mark, maker Bandai Namco is reporting. The “social figure collection game” was launched in January. It took the title 5 days to rack up 1 million players in 4 days, and another million 17 days...
Nice win for DeNA and maker Square Enix: Final Fantasy Brigade, the first social game using IP from the super-popular console RPG series Final Fantasy, has racked up 2 million users on Mobage. Square Enix has come up with a weird campaign to commemorate the milestone: users can get a so...
GREE has announced a wide-reaching partnership with Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world. What’s interesting is that the alliance is supposed to bolster GREE’s internationalization efforts (and they do need every bit of help they can get in that area). In...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry