By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE’s integrated, global social gaming platform is a few months away, meaning it’s about time for the company to announce a number of partner firms that are supposed to help third-party developers focus on creating, distributing and managing their games. GREE has chosen four key areas...
Mixi released their financial report for the third quarter of fiscal 2011 (October to December 2011), and things aren’t looking too good for Japan’s largest social network. Sales, for example, went down 2.7% year-on-year to 3.447 billion yen (US$45 million), while operating profit...
It seems that nothing can stop GREE, at least not at the moment. In its Q2 FY2012 financial report, the company says that sales grew a staggering 190% year-on-year to 41.5 billion yen (US$545 million). In the same time frame, net income even went up 206% to reach 12.7 billion yen (US$167 million)...
Capcom wasn’t the only big company producing social games that reported financial results in the last days: rival Konami announced its numbers for the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year. Here’s is the basic overview. Social games are part of Konami’s Digital Entertainment...
Capcom released their financial results for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good. For the nine-month period through December 31, sales dropped by a whopping 29% to US$657 million year-on-year. In the same time frame, operating...
Monster Hunter, the super-popular (especially in Japan) action RPG series from Capcom, is getting the social game treatment again. Last year, Capcom released “Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima” on GREE where it went on to become a smash hit. Now it’s DeNA that can look forward to a new...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry