By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
After having established a mobile social gaming platform called “dgame” in Japan, the country’s top carrier Docomo is now ready to bring it to China. dgame went live in Japan in December last year on smartphones and feature phones (through the browser). Back then already, Docomo...
Back in November 2012, mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with three Android titles (Anipang, Tap Tap Blitz, and Puzzle Zoo Zoo). Today operator Kakao Japan, which is 50% owned by Yahoo Japan, expanded said platform to iOS and...
Just a few weeks after Namco Bandai went public saying they have 30 million, Konami is now boasting a total of 35 million registered users across all of their social games. The company reported 10 million users in September 2011 and 20 million in April 2012. Konami revealed that Dragon Collection...
Nobody can be really surprised about this, but I myself have been wondering why Japan’s big telcos keep refusing to enter the country’s big social gaming market for years, especially as all three are aggressively moving from data and voice to content sales. But today the local mobile...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry