By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Sega has closed down one of the most ambitious mobile social games in Japan, Shenmue City (Shenmue Gai), on Mobage. The game’s developer, Ysnet, actually posted a two-liner thanking players on December 26 on the official homepage of the title. Shenmue City was launched amid much fanfare at...
DeNA today announced that Sega has chosen Mobage to launch the online version of super-successful (and pretty awesome) mobile RPG Kingdom Conquest. Available on iOS and Android, the title just hit 2 million downloads, and it’s rumored to be a big moneymaker for Sega. The social game version...
Sega announced that Phantasy Star, one of the most successful RPG series of all time, has been released on Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA‘s PC-based social gaming platform. The Flash-based social version is called “Phantasy Star – Eternal Planets”, with Sega...
Japan’s social gaming industry is maturing and continues to mix with the video gaming sector: Sega has announced it has entered a capital tie-up and that it will jointly develop social games with Tokyo-based startup Pokelabo. Details are scarce (financials, for example, weren’t...
DeNA just announced that Sega, as the first domestic game maker, has started distributing titles on Mobage for the Chinese market. Sega launched one Android game in Chinese on Mobage today and is expected to follow up with three more titles next month. What’s interesting is that three of the...
Yet another video game is going social: For Japanese feature phones, Sega actually rolled out the GREE version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), a famous action-adventure series, back in February. And today GREE finally announced the iPhone version of Yakuza, which can be started directly from the iPhone...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry