By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Tokyo-based video game maker Yuke’s released Wanko No Jikan (Dog Time) on Mobage today, a social game obviously “inspired” by Nintendogs, the Nintendo (7974) title. Much like in Nintendo’s pet simulation, Wanko No Jikan allows users to pet their virtual dogs, play with them...
“Minna to Monhan Card Master”, a social card battle game based on the popular Monster Hunter action RPG series, has racked up 500,000 users on Mobage. The Capcom title needed just four days (between February 21 – it’s launch day – and February 25) to reach the milestone. Co...
Zynga Japan has been very quiet for a while (the reason being they just weren’t very active or successful in recent months, to say the least), but now the company has rolled out a social RPG with original IP for iOS (Zynga Japan calls it a “Monster Battle RPG”). What’s...
DeNA is clearly more aggressive with regards to the Chinese market than GREE: while GREE’s entry into China is more or less limited to its partnership with Tencent, DeNA China has inked various deals with local companies in the last few months. Now the Mobage operator has added another big...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry