By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Big news from DeNA today, and I’ll get right to it: the company just officially announced in Japan that Mobage now connects with Facebook. This is huge. The press release is relatively curt (and available in Japanese only), as this isn’t exactly great news for DeNA (I’ll come to...
Japanese social gaming industry blog “Social Game Info” posted an interesting chart today. The overview sheds a light on the financial performance of Japan’s six listed third-party social game developers on a quarter-on-quarter basis. The companies are: Voltage (focuses on social...
Here’s a quick run-down on GREE-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): August 4, 2011: GREE gets pre-installed on the world’s first Microsoft Windows Mango phone in Japan (article in English) August 4, 2011: GREE announces a user base of...
GREE has added another potentially big title to its social game library, a “battle action game” based on Fist Of The North Star, a popular manga. The title is only playable on Japanese feature phones. What’s interesting (apart from the big brand name) is that Fist of the North...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry