By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
DeNA is reporting that Final Fantasy Brigade, the first social version of Square Enix’ legendary role-playing game series, now has over 1 million registered users on Mobage – in less than a month. To commemorate the milestone, Square Enix started an in-game campaign that allows players...
DeNA Studios Canada Ltd. – that’s the name of a wholly owned subsidiary DeNA has established in Vancouver last week. The Mobage company says that the local office will start operations “later this month”. From the press release: DeNA Studios Canada will be headed by...
DeNA is making another push into China: the Mobage operator announced that DeNA China and China’s biggest search engine company Baidu have partnered up to bring Mobage games to Baidu’s mobile app store. The so-called Yi Store is pre-installed on smartphones using Baidu’s Yi mobile...
I had the pleasure of taking part at Penn Olson‘s Startups In Asia conference in Singapore last week. Here is a summary of the coffee chat with me, here’s the summary of the panel discussion I moderated. Just to clarify: I was referring to the business model of social gaming in Japan as...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry