By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Are DeNA and Konami getting friendlier with each other? After releasing GREE top hit Professional Baseball Nine on Mobage, Konami now launched another social game on the DeNA platform. Busou Shinki BATTLE Communication is a social RPG set in the near future. Players have to clear missions, level up...
DeNA‘s American subsidiary ngmoco has announced that Mobage in English (in other words, the Android app) is now out of beta. For some reason, the press release isn’t making something very important clear: the Mobage-enabled games that have been released so far are now...
In their latest financial report, Mixi didn’t only report numbers but also announced a major overhaul of its app platform for November 15. It’s the most radical revamp of that section ever and is likely to benefit social game makers. The basic idea is to split the apps section into two...
DeNA is buying Yokohama-based pro baseball team BayStars, after all. Pending approval (see below), the Mobage company will acquire a 66.92% Yokohama BayStars Baseball Club, Inc. for 6.5 billion yen (US$83.2 million). DeNA’s global PR office has sent the following (unofficial) summary of the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry