By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Legendary multiplayer-game Bomberman (which I played on at least 10 different video game platforms when I was younger) is now available on GREE in the form of a social game. The title, Bomberman for GREE, was announced by its maker Hudson earlier this week. As with most video game titles originally...
In December 2010, Japan-based publisher Eastpress started distributing Appli Style, the first (printed) magazine on social games in the world. And now DeNA, or rather its social games platform Mobage, gets its own magazine, too. The so- called Famitsu Mobage has 96 pages (published by Enterbrain)...
Japanese video game behemoth Namco Bandai has released Browser Quest on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform jointly run by DeNA and Yahoo Japan. The title, an original action MMORPG actually looks quite nice and shows what’s possible on the platform. Apart from the nice looks...
Virtual worlds Ameba Piggu (Ameba Pico) or TinierMe are just two CyberAgent properties boasting a handsome number of users located outside of Japan. The third one is Poupeegirl, an avatar-based “fashion community” mainly targeted at girls. CyberAgent launched Poupeegirl in 2007 before...
DeNA and GMO Internet Group have announced the launch of a cloud computing service aimed at Japan-based social game developers that want to bring their games to international markets, especially the US. Both companies have started offering a similar service for the Japanese market as early as...
Disney hasn’t only entered CyberAgent’s Ameba Piggu virtual world, they just inked a deal with DeNA, too. Disney MyLand is a social themepark simulation game, which features the company’s iconic characters (and which is already available on Mobage). The goal of the game is to...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry