By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker Index announced that Persona 3 Social, the social version of the classic RPG series, has crossed the 1 million user mark. The players are spread over Persona 3 Social on Mobage (feature phone only), GREE (smartphone and feature phone), and Yahoo Mobage on...
DeNA was able to report a nice win when they got Square Enix to release the first social game version of Final Fantasy on Mobage for feature phones earlier this month. At that point, DeNA said a smartphone version is under development, which usually means it will take weeks or months to come out...
Following a disappointing financial report, Japanese video game maker Cave announced it will focus more on social games going forward. The company has an 18-year old history and is especially famous for its shoot’em ups aimed at a hardcore gamer audience (personally, I am a big fan)...
Tokyo-based Interspace and Takara Tomy Entamedia have announced “Transformers for GREE“, a social game based on the popular movie and toy franchise. Like so many new titles, Transformers for GREE will be a social card game. Players will be able to choose between various robots from the...
CyberAgent has announced that Ameba, its social networking and blogging platform, hit 20 million users across all related services at the end of last year. Ameba started off as a blogging platform in September 2004 and added various services like Ameba Pigg or Twitter clone Ameba Now over the years...
Tokyo-based mobile contents provider MTI is planning to launch a Mobage and GREE competitor. Dubbed entag!, the mobile social gaming platform is set to start operations on January 11. Not too surprisingly, membership will be free. As Mobage and GREE, entag! will offer a host of casual social games...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry