By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
GREE announced it will bring one of China’s biggest social games, Hoolai Game‘s Hoolai Three Kingdoms, to its smartphone platform in Japan. The social war strategy game was released in Japan in late 2010, made it to the top spot in the Chinese App Store and occupied the number one slot...
Registered users≠active users≠paying users: Mixi is about to lose three social games (on its PC platform) with more than 700,000 or even one million registered players each. Apart from RockYou Asia’s Speed Racing (about 720,000 registered players on September 16), Happy Aquarium by Drecom...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry