By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Asian tech blog Penn Olson (to be more specific, writer Rick Martin) has posted a video interview (please turn on close captioning in English) with Taisei Yoshida, GREE’s senior vice president of media business development. The interview was done during the Tokyo Game Show 2011 that ended a few...
DeNA‘s Kaito Royale isn’t only successful on Mobage, the company’s own platform. It’s also available – and very popular – on Mixi, Japan’s largest real identity social network. In fact, Gamebiz reports that the game hit 6,007,985 users today, at 11am JST...
GREE had one of the biggest booths at this year’s Tokyo Game Show (which ended yesterday), and quite a large space was reserved for third-party titles (GREE only offers nine self-developed games on its platform, after all). From those titles, Konami’s social collectible card game Dragon...
I finally found some time to make a few changes to this site. Everything remains unchanged update/post-wise (frequency and content), but some tweaks and additions were necessary: slightly new layout more focus on social media and social games in Japan (less e-commerce, for example) added the option...
Following Chaos Rings, GREE is soon to get another title from Square Enix: this time, the RPG specialists are to roll out a social game from its so-called SaGa series, which kicked off back in 1989. The series consists of a total of nine RPGs so far, and Emperors Saga, a new game exclusively...
Last month DeNA and Bandai Namco announced a social gaming joint venture called BDNA, which will be set up on October 3 in Tokyo. To recap, BDNA will be capitalized with 100 million yen (US$1.3 million), 75% owned by Bandai Namco, and led by a mixed team of Bandai Namco and DeNA executives. At the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry