By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It’s no secret that DeNA’s self-developed hit social game Kaitou Royal is the company’s main money maker. Now DeNA is planning to further monetize the Mobage title by turning it into a serialized manga and novel. DeNA has already started publishing the digital versions of the...
The biggest hit title on DeNA’s social gaming platform Mobage-town (Mobage) is Kaitou Royal. It’s rumored that this one game accounts for a big chunk of DeNA’s revenue and profits. Now TechCrunch Japan editor Ryuichi Nishida is reporting on Twitter that Takeshi Otsuka, the master...
DeNA has quietly shut down a total of five games on the Mobage platform in Japan recently, offering players who have purchased (but not yet used) virtual currency for the titles reimbursements. The list news site Social Game Info released today includes a few big titles, especially the first two:...
DeNA has added a new title on Mobage to its main proprietary sub-brand for social games, the “Royal” series (the most popular title being Kaitou Royal), today. Story-wise, “Teikoku Royal”, which is designed as a social adventure game, takes place somewhere in the...
I put together the following article for Social Casino Intelligence, the biggest publication covering the global social casino industry. The link to the online version of the original piece is here. The US$5 billion social gaming market in Japan is unique in many ways, but one of the most striking...
DeNA announced that its subsdiary DeNA China has linked the local version of Mobage with Chinese social network Kaixin001: from now on, users of the Facebook clone can access Mobage China with their existing IDs. Mobile Kaixin001 users can now download the Mobage China Android app through the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry