By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It took them a while, but Capcom has finally rolled out the smartphone version of Biohazard Outbreak Survive on GREE (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name for Resident Evil, Capcom’s super-popular horror action game series). The social game version was first launched on GREE for Japanese...
Tokyo-based Index has announced the launch of MissionGate, which is “France’s first social gaming” platform, according to the company. Why would a Japanese mobile contents provider open such a platform in France of all places? The answer is simple: back in 2004, Index bought a...
The number isn’t impressive as Konami’s, but Tecmo Koei is now counting a total of five million registered players for their social games offered on GREE, Mobage, and Yahoo Mobage. The “traditional” video game maker is seeing a 27% profit margin in the online and mobile...
Fired up by healthy sales numbers last quarter, Konami is continuing to churn out social games: the company announced BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL for Mobage on feature phones (official website). The new title is based on a Japanese high school manga from the 1980s – and it’s yet another social...
Tokyo-based (and newly listed) social gaming company Klab is going international. KLab Cyscorpions is the name of 100% subsidiary that was launched in Singapore and will handle international smartphone game development for Klab in the future. Tokyo- and Manila-based game maker Cyscorpions (which...
I would have guessed Konami’s J-League Dream Eleven has more users on GREE (where it has been among the top three third-party titles for quite a while now), but according to Gamebiz, the social soccer card game has just hit one million registered players. Competitor EA/gumi’s FIFA World...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry