By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
After inking a deal with SK Telecom in August last year and opening its own office in Seoul in October, GREE has made another move in South Korea: it entered a capital tie-up with Mobicle, a local developer of smartphone games. GREE bought 224,178 shares in the studio (6.8% of its outstanding stock...
CyberAgent has released a new mobile social game on iOS: as the name suggests, Ninja Farm is a Ninja-themed farming simulation. In the game, players can create their own Ninja fighters, battle other players, or choose between a total of 100 different virtual items to decorate their farms with...
Hot on the heels of the Kaixin001 deal that was inked at the end of December, DeNA has announced they teamed up with a second Chinese partner, online game provider NetDragon. The goal is to jointly develop and offer mobile social games on the Chinese market. The two companies will set up a joint...
GREE and DeNA are still growing, and with them does Japan’s social gaming industry as a whole: JP Morgan thinks so, as does Morgan Stanley, and now Yano updated their projections for the market. (Note: there are more Japanese sources with more stats, but I am not able to cover them all on...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry