By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Klab has ported its soccer-themed social game Captain Tsubasa to GREE, a few weeks after the title crossed the 1.5 million user mark on Mobage. The company has probably paid quite a few yen to acquire the license for the famous soccer anime and manga from the 1980s, which means the port isn’t...
CyberAgent America is launching another social game on Facebook. To be precise, “Magical Saga” is a fantasy title developed by Gcrest America, which is the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based game maker Gcrest (which is a subsidiary of CyberAgent). Magical Saga is specifically designed for a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry