By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE just announced they will set up a booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), to be held in Los Angeles from June 5-7 this year. It will be the first time for GREE to take part in the event, which is the world’s biggest of its kind. The company is planning to showcase games and use...
DeNA‘s US company ngmoco recently laid off 30 people, TechCrunch and Inside Mobile Apps are reporting. According to TechCrunch, the group includes “senior leaders including a director of platform tech and the chief marketing officer”. The same blog is reporting that one game has...
It’s not a secret that GREE has been outpacing DeNA in recent months: the market cap today at the Tokyo Stock Exchange for DeNA stood at US$4.9 billion (DeNA stock soared today), while GREE reached US$7.8 billion. Nikkei Online has tried to visualize the race between the two rivals in recent...
Action social games are pretty rare – reason enough for me to highlight a new entry in this genre in Japan, “Shuriken Smaaash” from Tokyo-based developer Nijibox. Another reason the game stands out is that it has been released on Mobage in the form of native apps, for Android and...
FIFA World Class Soccer, the social card game launched by Electronic Arts and Tokyo-based gumi in mid-November last year, now has 1.5 million users. The title first knocked off Konami’s Dragon Collection off the top of the GREE charts for a short period of time and took just 25 days to reach...
One Piece Grand Collection, the social game based on the popular manga/anime series One Piece, now has 2 million registered users on Mobage. The title was launched by DeNA partner Namco Bandai just 17 days ago. It took the social figure collection game, which features various characters from One...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry