By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Japan (4689), the country’s biggest online company, is entering the smartphone game publishing business. The news started making the rounds over here after this recruitment page went online, where the company is looking for game producers, designers, planners, and a whole range of other...
Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
Malaysian media conglomerate Astro is organizing the inaugural #GoInnovate event in Cyberjaya (near the capital Kuala Lumpur) next month, and I was given the chance to hold a presentation about mobile gaming during the conference. The event consists of three parts: Hackathon Mobile Games Conference...
Monster Strike, the mega hit game from Mixi (2121), is finally scheduled to get more international versions. Outside Japan, the app is only available in Taiwan so far. As Mixi’s distribution partner in China, Tencent has opened a Chinese Monster Strike site in late July but hasn’t...
Supercell, King, Game Insight, Gameloft, Social Quantum, Goodgame, Tencent, Machine Zone, WeMade, Kabam etc. etc.: the list of foreign game makers active in the lucrative Japanese mobile gaming market has sure grown longer and longer over the last months and years. Berlin-based Wooga is next: the...
Here is an updated calendar of major native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that games can be modified, canceled, or released by these companies at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry