By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
When I was playing Coin Pusher Mafia yesterday, it occurred to me that CyberAgent has actually launched Gamewave, it’s iPhone-only social gaming platform, without making a fuss about it. In fact, the company (neither CyberAgent nor CyberAgent America) never issued a press release about it...
Apparently CyberAgent knows how to do some things right in the App Store: the company announced its restaurant management game Zombie Restaurant has hit the top 10 for iOS devices in the American App Store (iTunes). As the name of the game suggests, Zombie Restaurant uses a new twist in the...
DeNA just announced it will establish a joint venture with video game powerhouse Bandai Namco Games on October 1. The new company, which will be called BDNA, will be based out of Tokyo and capitalized at 100 million yen (US$1.3 million). The idea is to combine Bandai Namco’s (decade long)...
Last month, I attended an event in San Francisco entitled “Social Networks and Games: Transition from Web to Mobile in Japan and the US” when I spent a few days in California. The event, which was organized by the local office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) was very...
After GREE announced they will open an office in Singapore “this spring” (which never happened, but they are partnering with mig33 there), DeNA followed suit today: the company just announced the establishment of DeNA Asia in Singapore to drive forward the expansion of Mobage to other...
CyberAgent, through its US subsidiary CyberAgent America, has released a new iOS game that’s available in English (apart from Japanese). Coin Pusher Mafia [free on iTunes] is essentially a “virtual” version of a medal game that’s especially popular in Japanese arcades...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry