By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Major video game maker and DeNA partner Bandai Namco has rolled out Tales Of Kizna on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. The title is the first social version in the 16-year old “Tales” series of RPGS (and was announced last month). Developed by Tokyo-based social gaming company Klab, Tales Of...
Super-successful social game maker gloops has decided to translate to English and bring one of their hit titles on Mobage, Legend Cards, to Facebook for smartphones. It’s best if you open the link to the social card game on a phone: while the app opens on Facebook for the PC, too, it’s...
DeNA today announced it entered a strategic partnership with Vietnam’s biggest web company VNG. Under the deal, DeNA will support its new partner in bringing social games exclusively to Mobage in the future. The plan is to release “at least three social games for smartphones on Mobage...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry