By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Investors in stock from publicly traded Japanese mobile gaming companies need nerves of steel, especially right now. Case in point: KLab (3656), the Tokyo-based mobile game maker that’s known outside Japan for its card battler “Lord Of The Dragons”. The company had a number of...
Last year in September, during the Tokyo Game Show 2012, GREE (3632) took the wraps off “Project Fantasm:A”, a new first-party title with some pretty high-profile names behind it. GREE didn’t talk much about their “AAA” social game since but fast forward to today, and it’s...
Last month, Capcom (9697) announced a mobile spin-off of its popular action RPG Dragon’s Dogma for the Playstation Vita. Dubbed Dragon’s Dogma Quest, the game is scheduled for release later this year in the form of a F2P and online-only variation of the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 hit...
Just last week The Nikkei reported about sales and profit sliding significantly for GREE (3632) between April to June (ahead of the company’s official announcement of its financial results for that quarter). Back then, Japan’s biggest business publication reported that – as a...
The first Insert Coin! event will be held in Tokyo on Wednesday next week, and I was given the chance to hold a presentation about (what else) mobile games in Japan. Hiroki Omae, the Regional Director for Unity Japan, will also be speaking. Here are some links to Insert Coin! websites: Official...
New mobile gaming startups are a very rare sight these days in Japan, but earlier this week, a studio called “Alim” officially appeared on the scene. Based in Tokyo, the company actually registered in March already and just received investment from gumi Ventures, B-Dash Ventures, and...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry