By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
In February this year, Sega announced it has teamed up with Aiming, a Tokyo-based developer, to develop mobile games aimed at the global market. At the same time, the two companies unveiled their first co-developed title, “MO Action Shooting” game Towa No Tsurugi (more here). Fast forward to June...
Tokyo-based game maker Aiming released Kingdom Corps on Google Play, the English-language version of the Japanese hit “Lord Of Knights”. The social RPG/strategy hybrid has been downloaded over 400,000 times in Japan (and perhaps more importantly, it has been monetizing very well, too)...
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has released their ranking of the top 50 high-growth companies in Japan in the TMT sector (Technology, Media & Telecommunications), and the rapid expansion of the country’s social gaming sector is clearly reflected in the list. According to Deloitte’s...
Lord Of The Dragons, the first English-language title by Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker KLab, has hit the top spot in the US App Store ranking for free games. According to KLab’s press release, this was the case on September 28 (and probably for a few hours) only, and God knows...
And yet another social card battle game from a Japanese maker is going global: this time, from Axel Mark. The Tokyo-based (and listed) company last month announced a cooperation with DeNA for their international business. At that time, it already said that Kingdom Wars will be the first title being...
If you need yet another piece of evidence that the gaming industry is in the midst of a mobile revolution, take a look at the charts below. This first one, created by Rick Martin from tech blog Tech In Asia, shows the distribution of mobile versus console games during the Tokyo Game Show 2012...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry