By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
It’s not really a social game but a good title to have for DeNA in its portfolio: the company today announced the launch of “Space Invaders Infinity Gene LITE” for Mobage. The Mobage version of the legendary shooting game series (Space Invaders looks back at a 33 year-old history)...
If you happen to read this and reside in Japan, chances are you might be interested in the so-called Tofu Project x Open Network Lab day that’s going to take place this Friday (September 9) in Tokyo. The event is sponsored by seed accelerator Open Network Lab and JP Morgan Japan. Here’s...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry