By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA today announced that Sega has chosen Mobage to launch the online version of super-successful (and pretty awesome) mobile RPG Kingdom Conquest. Available on iOS and Android, the title just hit 2 million downloads, and it’s rumored to be a big moneymaker for Sega. The social game version...
Comcept, the company founded by famous video game creator Keiji Inafune, has released its first social game on GREE for Android today. The title, dubbed “Dr. Momo’s Island”, was co-developed with Index. The much anticipated game has a weird story: players take on the role of Dr...
DeNA announced that its subsdiary DeNA China has linked the local version of Mobage with Chinese social network Kaixin001: from now on, users of the Facebook clone can access Mobage China with their existing IDs. Mobile Kaixin001 users can now download the Mobage China Android app through the...
Golgo 13, a Japanese cult manga from the 1960s, is getting the social game treatment. DeNA announced it has launched a social “battle RPG” of the same name on Mobage for Japanese feature phones yesterday. In the game, players are supposed to assemble a team of top agents and engage in...
Nice win for Konami: Sengoku Collection, a social card game Konami published on Mobage in December last year, will be turned into an anime series on Japanese TV from spring 2012. In the fantasy game, players need to collect cards to become a shogun in medieval Japan (there are currently over 600...
“Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima”, a social game from Capcom’s super-popular fantasy game series Monster Hunter (19 million units sold so far), has been released on December 19 (it has been announced last month). The title is available on GREE for feature phones and smartphones and has...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry