By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I had the opportunity to speak at the so-called Tofu Project x Open Network Lab Day earlier this week in Tokyo. Approximately 150 people came to the event, which was sponsored by seed accelerator Open Network Lab and JP Morgan Japan. If you missed the event, here is a video of me speaking about...
If you still needed proof that Kaito Royale, the No. 1 title on Mobage, is Japan’s biggest social game (over 10 million registered users), here’s another hint: as probably the first social game in the world, Kaito Royale will be turned into a TV series. As in the game, there will be...
Konami has announced the user base of their social games across GREE and DeNA‘s Mobage has passed the 10 million mark at the end of last month. Their biggest hit is Dragon Collection, a social collectible card game, that is close to occupying the No. 1 spot on GREE for an entire year straight...
CyberAgent yesterday announced it has set up the so-called “International Mobile Marketing Division” that aims at providing “overseas companies with smartphone and mobile promotion opportunities in Japan”. The devil is in the details, but given that this country is a black...
Japan’s social games market is lucrative, big and growing, but it’s a tough nut to crack for many foreign game developers, even the successful ones. One case in point is Zynga Japan, which decided to shut down the Japanese versions of Farmville And Treasure Isle in July after it turned...
CyberAgent‘s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is continuing to grow. According to a presentation the company gave during CEDEC 2011, the number of users currently stands at a whopping 8.5 million. That’s up from just 6 million users at the end of January this year...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry