By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry