By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
First DeNA, now CyberAgent: the company posted a few new documents on its website, all of which are available in English, but unlike DeNA, CyberAgent’s financial reports are about the second quarter of the current fiscal year. In a nutshell, things are looking pretty good at the moment for...
It took them a few days, but DeNA finally published their operating results and financial statements for Q4 in English. I am currently reading the documents, which can be downloaded (PDF) here:
FY2010Q4 Operating Results
FY2010Q4 Consolidated Financial Statements
The Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) is probably one of the largest (if not the largest) of its kind worldwide (last year, I was fortunate to participate as a moderator and judge). During the GMIC 2011 (which ended yesterday), DeNA COO Isao Moriyasu gave a speech in which he unveiled a...
Rakuten president Hiroshi Mikitani said in an interview he gave to The Nikkei that his company will enter a handful of countries in Europe plus Brazil and India this year. According to Mikitani, further acquisitions in those markets are possible, too. These countries would follow Japan, China...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry