By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Sega announced that Phantasy Star, one of the most successful RPG series of all time, has been released on Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA‘s PC-based social gaming platform. The Flash-based social version is called “Phantasy Star – Eternal Planets”, with Sega...
It was a good run for Konami: their mega hit social game Dragon Collection occupied the top spot on the ranking of the most popular titles on GREE for over a year. But Dragon Collection has been pushed down to No. 2 today, and now EA has the bragging rights for the No. 1 game on GREE (among third...
One of the biggest (if not the biggest) third-party social game providers on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced it now counts 10 million members across all of its titles. That means Gloops is playing in the same league as Konami, which boasts over 11 million social game users (mostly on GREE)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry