By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Puzzle & Dragons company GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) today announced it plans to launch a subsidiary in Singapore next month. Named “GungHo Online Entertainment Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd.” (GAP), the idea is to invest in promising gaming businesses (games and related fields) in...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has finally reached the 30 million download mark in Japan, maker GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) said today. Puzzle & Dragons was released on the Japanese App Store on February 20, 2012. Versions for Android and Amazon Kindle were added later...
As I mentioned earlier, the LINE Games platform has been very much overrated since its launch in 2012. One of the main reasons is that most of the titles are extremely casual, and most belong to one genre: puzzle games. There has been an inflation of these “light” games (some of which...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry