By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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)...
Social games based on wrestling? They are coming: Fire Pro Wrestling, a video game series that started in Japan in 1989, is getting a social version on Mobage. Maker Spike actually started offering “Fire Pro Wrestling in Mobage” today (the title is available exclusively on Mobage for...
GREE stock has lost over 5% at the Tokyo Stock Exchange today (after the lawsuit against DeNA), but it did better than its rival: DeNA’s stock lost 6.6%, and hit 2,454 yen, the lowest price this year. GREE’s market cap now stands at US$8.3 billion, while that of DeNA amounts to...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry