By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
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
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry