By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A quite good-looking RPG was added to mobile social gaming platform Mobage today, “S.U.N Episode Mobile”, a special version of Soul of the Ultimate Nation (an online fantasy MMORPG for Windows PCs). Made by Korean gaming company Webzen, the PC game was first launched in various Asian...
On March 10, just one day before the big earthquake hit Japan, Mixi launched a promotion campaign on Japanese TV. But on the day of the quake, Mixi pulled the spots and is now introducing a total of six (entirely new) commercials on its website. The overall idea here is to explain how easy it is to...
Zynga Japan today introduced a new CEO, a Japanese person this time: Kenji Matsubara, who previously led video game company Tecmo Koei, will take over the role from Robert Goldberg on May 9. Goldberg was sent over to Japan from Zynga proper, after the company bought Tokyo-based social games maker...
Following a small hiccup, Japan’s largest social network Mixi today announced the Mixi iPhone app was updated and is now ready for download in the App Store. While the screenshots Mixi released look great (I will try the app out myself very soon), the first reviews that are currently landing...
“Mobagetown” is no more: earlier today, DeNA‘s rebranding of its mobile social game platform to just “Mobage” (short for mobile games) came into effect. In addition, Yahoo Mobagetown, the PC social gaming site DeNA operates in cooperation with Yahoo Japan, is now...
Nico Nico Douga or YouTube Japan? Major Japanese tech news outlet ITmedia updated its site again with new market data that helps to understand what video sites are the most popular in the country. The new numbers from Tokyo-based research firm Video Research Interactive highlight that in Japan...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry