By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
How have ARPU and sales of DeNA and GREE changed over the last months? Japanese blog “Shares” has created two handy charts that show how these metrics developed from 2008, and I translated them below. This chart shows the ARPU for DeNA (Mobage) and GREE between 2008 and today. If this...
Recently IPO’d social gaming company Klab announced that Captain Tsubasa, a soccer-themed social game, has hit the 1.5 million user mark. The title is part of a bigger trend in Japan, namely using famous anime and manga brands as a thematic and graphic background for social games. In the case...
Capcom isn’t the only Japanese video game maker seeing growth in its social games segment: Konami has posted the results for the first half of their current fiscal year (2012), and this is how things look for Konami as a whole: Sales for social games (SNS games) jumped from 65 to US$216...
Video game maker Capcom has posted the financial results for the second half of this fiscal year (March to September), and the company focuses heavily on its social gaming segment. Things don’t look too well for Capcom as a whole, as can be seen here: But the company also said that: downloads...
CyberAgent has announced Animal Bakery, a social game for iOS in English and Japanese that’s embedded in the company’s mobile social gaming network Gamewave (more details). CyberAgent explains: ‘Animal Bakery’ is a bakery management game where players must feed animals with organic food...
We’re still waiting for Mobage to hit the iOS platform in English, but DeNA China just rolled out that version, tech blog Penn Olson has learned. The Chinese iOS version is the first to follow the one DeNA rolled out for the Japanese market in August (Mobage on Android was released in China...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry