By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE has announced yet another port of a hit game from a major Japanese console game maker: this time, it’s Square Enix, which started offering Chaos Rings Lite on GREE for the iPhone. The RPG was released as a standalone app on the iPhone last year and reached the No. 1 position in a total...
Video game maker Square Enix released another social game yesterday, a social RPG called Gleipnora. The title is exclusively available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. In the game, players take on the rule of a newly enrolled student in a “school for magicians” called Valheriar...
Major Japanese video game maker Square Enix announced (and already released) Traveling Fairy today, a new fantasy adventure for Mobage for feature phones. As you would expect from Square Enix, the social game looks pretty slick. Traveling Fairy contains location-based elements and lets the player...
Just like last year for 2023, game industry news site GamesIndustry.biz asked several analysts for predictions about the global gaming market in 2024. Here is a repost from my contribution to their article: “Switch 2” will come and be $400 The time is finally here for a Switch...
I was recently interviewed by Joseph Kim (who runs GameMakers and is also the CEO of mobile game studio Lila Games), Brian Peganoff (founder at Timber Advisors) and Matthew Kanterman (Director Of Research at Roundhill Investments) on the Japanese gaming market – with an extra dash of Korean...
Japanese game industry data provider KADOKAWA ASCII Research Laboratories just published the top 10 grossing mobile games for Japan in CY2022. Here is the overview (gross sales, Japan domestic only, iOS and Android combined) – based on the company’s estimates*: 1) Monster Strike...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry