By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for DeNA today: Sega’s legendary fighting game series Virtua Fighter (that really is the correct spelling) is going social. “Virtua Fighter Cool Champ” (awful title) launched today on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. Virtua Fighter Cool Champ is a social card battle...
Mobage is getting a pretty good-looking social horror RPG: Square Enix has started distributing “Sokotsune Underworld” on Mobage for Japanese feature phones today. The game is using Cthulhu, the famous fictional divinity created by H.P. Lovecraft, as the background for the story. In the...
GREE‘s globally integrated mobile social gaming platform is just a few months away, and after presenting details about dev support for “GREE 2.0”, the company today announced a total of 12 new games. No less than 11 companies based out of mainland China, Hong Kong and Korea are...
Osaka isn’t the only city GREE is moving to: GREE International, GREE’s US company, is ready to move to a new office in San Francisco this spring. The company will be operating out of 41,000 square feet in a space located in San Francisco’s China Basin neighborhood. By way of...
After opening one office after the other outside Japan last year, GREE is planning to open a social game development studio in Osaka later this month. What’s interesting is that this office will be the first of its kind outside Tokyo: the company does employ hundreds of people in Hokkaido and...
CyberAgent is continuing to expand its social gaming business. The Japanese web powerhouse, which is currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$1.9 billion market cap, has acquired a majority stake in Tokyo-based R-Force Entertainment. The Tokyo-based game maker has been around since...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry