By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that Kabam has signed a deal with Tokyo-based (and listed) mobile game maker KLab (3656). Under the deal, Kabam will market and distribute some of KLab’s titles in the US as well as Europe. KLab’s most famous game internationally is...
If this becomes reality, this is surely one of the biggest developments in Japan’s mobile gaming scene in recent months. The country’s biggest business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that a total of 15 Japanese mobile game makers are preparing to join forces in marketing...
Every once in a while, I am seeing alarmist tweets or reports that indicate the number of Facebook users in a certain territory has “dramatically dropped” in a very short period of time. In the case of Japan, the last time this made the rounds in social media and elsewhere was in June...
Japan’s Mobile Content Forum (MCF) has issued a new report that includes a number of interesting statistics on this country’s mobile industry. According to the MCF, Japan’s market for mobile gaming reached roughly US$5.1 billion in 2012. I translated the key information of the...
For everybody expecting game-related stuff: sorry to hijack the site for this post - this might happen more often in the future. Both projects would need to get started as soon as possible and require somebody living in Tokyo for various reasons. The budget is limited. Needless to say, proposals to...
EA Japan is currently developing Tetris Monsters, a puzzle/RPG hybrid that’s scheduled to hit iOS this summer (the game hasn’t been announced for other markets – or Android – yet). Details are scarce at the moment, but Tetris Monsters will come with the official Tetris...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry