By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Big news from DeNA today: Since December 15, 2010, Mobage-town users can access the social gaming platform through a special smartphone-optimized site. This version doesn’t only feature Mobage-town’s community elements but also offers games. All Mobage-related information, for example...
DeNA today announced that Tecmo Koei’s hit console game Monster Farm will land on its social gaming platform Mobage-town in January 2011. The social version of the “monster farm simulation” game will be called 1 Million Person Monster Farm. The game series is known as Monster...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s social games sector for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan, covering DeNA (Mobagetown), GREE, Zynga Japan and other things. Excerpt: The market valuation of Zynga, the San Francisco-based company behind Farmville and a host of...
Japan’s social mobile games giant GREE is going more and more the smartphone way: GREE today announced the launch of an Android application. It follows the iPhone app GREE introduced back in August this year. GREE’s move is understandable: Both Android and the iPhone are rapidly gaining...
Big news from Japan’s mobile social gaming sector today: DeNA is under suspicion of breaking the country’s antitrust law. Authorities raided DeNA’s offices in Tokyo today: Tokyo-based mobile gaming heavyweight DeNA (current market cap: US$4.5 billion) was investigated by the Japan...
Dwango apparently thinks that its hit video platform Nico Nico Douga could also make money through social games. Starting today, the site will have a special section called Nico Nico Applications. Users can initially choose between 10 different titles, i.e. one from Bandai, one from Sega-Sammy, and...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry