By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent (4751) is not only operating one of Japan’s biggest blog and social networks (Ameba) or producing mobile games (Rage Of Bahamut should be the most famous title outside Japan). The company is also Japan’s biggest online ad provider, offering a whole array of products on...
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 sometimes...
Rovio Japan, based out of Tokyo’s Shibuya ward, is getting a new country director on September 1. Katsumi Oikawa (pictured below) will take over the lead from Antti Sonninen who has been with Rovio proper since 2011 and officially started heading Rovio’s Japan operations in 2012...
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 sometimes...
Colopl (3668) had a good day yesterday. The company first said that its flagship game “Quiz RPG: World Of Mystic Wiz” racked up 29 million downloads. This number puts the app in the same ball park as Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo Online Entertainment (3765). Puzzle...
GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) had a busy day today in Japan. Apart from setting up a new Singapore subsidiary, the Puzzle & Dragons company also sold GGF B.V., a wholly owned holding company based in the Netherlands, to its parent company SoftBank (9984). GGF B.V. was specifically...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry