By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Apart from Foursquare, Twitter, and Skype, Sony is planning to integrate another online service for buyers of their upcoming next-generation handheld gaming system, the Playstation Vita: Nico Nico Douga. Sony and Dwango apparently inked a deal under which Nico Nico Douga will be one of the pre...
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on Japan’s web, mobile, and social gaming industries during an event in Tokyo (on search engines, e-commerce, social networks, mobile web usage and the basic structure of the social gaming industry in this country, to be more exact). Companies and...
Amazon Japan is set to expand its business: the company started offering software (for download) today, anything from games, to anti-virus programs to office applications. The selection (or prices) aren’t terribly exciting, but this is actually a quite big move for the site. Amazon Japan...
It took them a while, but DeNA finally released Mobage for iOS on the Japanese App Store on Thursday (iTunes, Japanese only). The free app was made available at the same time as three games, namely Solitaire, Reversi and Ninja Royale. Smartphone users in Japan were able to access Mobage through the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry