By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mobage may have just added Star Girls to its social games catalog, but last week, an idol raising game also found its way to GREE. Dubbed “Love Kyun! Idol Battle”, the title lets GREE users take on the role of a producer in an artist agency. Players need to choose girls with potential...
Games, in which players have to train “idols” (stars) to rise to fame and fortune, are quite popular in Japan. Nagoya-based Ateam has just release Star Girls on Mobage, a social game that lets players take on the role of a music manager. The goal of the game is to choose a girl with...
Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy’s Choro Q toy cars have been used in countless video games so far, and today, Takara Tomy Entamedia unveiled “Combat Choro Q” for GREE. In a nutshell, the title can be described as a social tank battle game with some extra-cute graphics (Combat Choro...
Initial D, a popular Japanese anime and manga series, has seen quite a few video games over the years, and now Tokyo-based Butterfly Corp. decided to turn it into a mobile social game (also called Initial D) on Mobage. The game (obviously) takes place in the Initial D universe and lets players...
How has the stock of Japan’s major social networking companies, Mixi, GREE, DeNA and CyberAgent, been doing in the past 5 years when compared to the development of the Nikkei? In a nutshell, investors seem to really love the potential social games offer. Here’s the chart for Mixi (IPO...
Mobage is getting another nice-looking social role-playing game: Tokyo-based Chunsoft today announced Ransei Ayakashi Emaki, a social RPG that went live today on Mobage. The game takes place in a fantasy world in which three countries are at war with each other. The player takes on the role of a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry