By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Back in February 2011, Sega launched the first social version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku, its popular action-adventure game series on GREE for feature phones. (The video game version is known as “Yakuza” in the US and other places.) In July 2011, Sega followed up with a social Yakuza game on GREE for the...
I am excited to speak at the Asia Pacific ICT Summit 2012, which takes place next week in Singapore (March 13-14). As the name suggests, the event focuses on digital media, and information and communications technology (ICT) in Asia. The summit is put together by Singapore infocomm Technology...
As I was assuming, it didn’t take long for DeNA (ngmoco, to be more precise) to finally start Mobage in English on the iOS platform. ngmoco made a public announcement on March 2 on Mobage’s US Facebook page, and launched the first Mobage-powered iOS titles in the US App Store on March...
That was quick: just a few days after the iOS version, Zynga Japan released Montopia, its social RPG/Pokemon clone, on the Android Market today. Just like the iOS game, Montopia on Android is only available to Japanese users at this point. I am assuming Zynga uses Japan as a test market before...
Big news for DeNA: its US company ngmoco just announced that Mobage will soon be available as an English version on iOS. Minutes ago, ngmoco posted this status update on Mobage’s official Facebook page: “Soon” probably means that Mobage on iOS is just hours or days away (I asked...
Just in time for the Japanese release of Star Wars 3D on the big screen (next month), Konami launched Star Wars Collection, a card battle game based on the movie series, on GREE today. Konami announced the social game last month, explaining: STAR WARS COLLECTION is a card game that will have...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry