By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
What do you do when you have a mobile social game that’s 1.5 years old, already has 5 million+ registered users on GREE and that may near the end of its life cycle soon? If you are Konami and have a super hit like Dragon Collection in your portfolio, you start promoting the game to acquire...
Square Enix can be satisfied with the performance of Final Fantasy Brigade, the first social game based on the classic RPG series. The title hit 500,000 registered players, 13 days after launch on Mobage on January 7. Square Enix released a prettier smartphone browser version a few days after the...
Tokyo-based social game maker Klab, which went IPO in September last year, released its first native app. The game in question is Shin Sengoku Buster, one of Klab’s most successful titles. Just like the feature phone and smartphone browser versions, the iOS app is embedded in the Mobage...
The biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced its social baseball card game “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” hit 2.5 million users on January 8. The game was released on August 18, reached 1.5 million registered players on October 19, and 2 million on November 18...
Konami is (again) linking a social game with an arcade title: the company has released a social game called Hunter Chronicle which works in conjunction with Steel Chronicle, an action game released in Japanese arcades last year. Konami explains: Its counterpart, “HUNTER CHRONICLE,” is a...
It seems Namco Bandai just added quite a few social gamers to its member base of 10 million: One Piece Grand Collection, the social game based on the wildly popular anime the company released last week, boasts one million registered users on Mobage. What’s amazing is that it took just 4 days...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry