By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
“GxYz”, the joint venture GREE (3632) and Yahoo Japan established back in February this year, has released its first game. “Driland – Devil King Army vs. Men Of Valor” (a rough translation of the title) is a spin off of social card battler Driland (aka Doliland), GREE’s...
Japan’s most popular smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has been gaining one million registered users domestically every three weeks or so 15 times in a row to currently boast 17 million. Last month, maker GungHo (3765) said the title has over one million players in South Korea. But so far, the...
GungHo Online Entertainment (3765), the company behind Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, today published its financial report for January to June 2013. Here are the main data points in English for that time frame (the report is available in Japanese only): sales: US$763 million...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has arrived at 17 million users on July 22, maker GungHo (3765) has announced. The number only includes Japanese users, across the App Store, Google Play, and the Kindle. Just like earlier this month, when the game hit 16 million players, the number...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry