By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE has been strangely quiet on their expansion plans in the US after the company bought Openfeint back in April for US$104 million. To date, not one GREE 1st-party game has been localized for non-Japanese markets, for example (to be fair, there are only about ten, and some of them aren’t...
I can’t say I am surprised: DeNA today announced they will form a joint venture with Grasshopper Manufacture, the maker of games like No More Heroes, Shadows Of The Damned, Killer 7, or Lollipop Chainsaw. The joint venture company, provisionally named “Grasshopper Social Network...
GREE stock has been growing rapidly in recent months, and today the company reported some impressive revisions in their earnings estimates for the fiscal year (which, for GREE, ends in June 2012) GREE is now projecting sales to reach US$1.67 billion to US$1.8 billion (that’s up 40-44.4% from...
DeNA issued its financial report for the second quarter of this fiscal year today, and year-on-year, the numbers look pretty good: sales reached US$457 million for the quarter (which ended on September 30), which translates to a 28% plus year-on-year. Operating income hit US$203 million (+13%). The...
Facebook Japan and the country’s biggest advertising agency Dentsu are copying an innovation from Mixi: both companies have announced the launch of “Postman”, a service that makes it possible to create and send New Year greeting postcards to your friends on Facebook. Just like...
A nice win for DeNA: Konami has silently released one of their top social games on GREE, namely social baseball card game Professional Baseball Dream Nine, on Mobage today. The game is now available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones and Mobage for Android. It looks like Konami just...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry