By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Konami currently occupies the first three spots in the ranking of the most popular social games on GREE: the most popular title is Dragon Collection, No. 2 is Professional Baseball Dream Nine, and No. 3 is soccer card game “J-League Dream Eleven”. And now Konami has announced it filed a lawsuit...
Konami’s social game super hit, Dragon Collection, which is close to being the No. 1 game on GREE for a year straight, has passed the four million user mark. Gamebiz reports that the four millionth player registered for the social fantasy card game/RPG on Monday (September 5). To commemorate...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry