By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE‘s partnership with Tencent is bearing some fruit: Taito’s Android game Spy Wars has been made available on the Chinese social networking platform. To be more concrete, Spy Wars is deployed on the ” Tencent Wireless Open Platform for Community for smartphones”. GREE...
Here is an answer I gave to the question on popular Q&A site Quora: It very much depends on the game, but the social card games usually start by giving you a few cards so you can actually start playing. There are a few ways to obtain cards (to complete the deck) and interact with players. There...
Konami has released a social horse racing game on Mobage that has a very interesting twist: some races taking place in the game are timed with races taking place in the real world. The company bought an official license for “Dream Stallion” from the JRA (Japan Racing Association) to be...
DeNA blames part of the reason why their newest financial numbers were relatively weak on the fact that their recent first-party games didn’t do as well as expected (which is especially true for Ninja Royale). To be more concrete, DeNA missed out on card games, a genre that’s now...
Twitter isn’t as hot in Japan as it was in 2010, but it’s still huge and firmly established itself as one of the top web brands in the country. Reason enough for Mixi, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network to partner up with Twitter next week. Japanese tech news site IT...
Every social gaming platform needs strong third-party developers, and the strongest of them all (on Mobage) is gloops – reason enough for DeNA to announce a strategic partnership with the Tokyo-based company today. Under the deal, DeNA and gloops will “mutually share social games...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry