By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for DeNA: Rage Of Bahamut, a social card battle game made by Tokyo-based Cygames (a CyberAgent subsidiary), is the top-grossing app on Google Play. The main bullet point here is that the Android app is part of the Mobage network since February this year. Industry blog Inside Mobile Apps...
Following gloops’ Legend Cards on Facebook, Spirit Force from Drecom on iOS, it’s now DeNA/ngmoco that is bringing a successful social card battle game from Japan to English-speaking players. The title in question is Rage Of Bahamut, known in Japan as Shingeki Bahamut. Over here...
GREE continues to step on the gas: after securing a number of promising games, announcing a partnership with Yahoo, and expanding its merchandising business, the company today said it entered a joint venture with Ameba operator CyberAgent. This is remarkable, as a) CyberAgent is a top provider of...
It’s now safer than ever to call web conglomerate CyberAgent, which runs a whole range of services from online advertising to social networks and virtual worlds, “successful” in gaming, too. The Ameba operator is counting a whopping 30 million (registered) social game users across...
Quite a few financial results from social gaming companies are due in the next days, and CyberAgent is the first company to report (for the April-June 2012 quarter). In a nutshell, sales and operating profit were up, but the Japanese web powerhouse missed expectations from analysts – and got...
CyberAgent finally rolled out its long awaited social gaming network, which is directly positioned against GREE and DeNA‘s Mobage on the Japanese market. The network, which has no distinct brand name, is the biggest competitor GREE and Mobage are seeing since Mixi opened its site to game...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry