By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
The Nikkei has just reported online that things are starting to look better overseas for DeNA (2432): according to the Japanese business daily, the Mobage operator has seen sales in the US grow 600% year-on-year to US$90 million in the April-June quarter. Note: this number hasn’t been...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons now boasts 16 million users, according to maker GungHo (3765). It took the title 21 days to get from 15 million users to 16 million (the new milestone was reached on June 29), which means that Puzzle & Dragons has been able to add one million...
From time to time, Japanese business daily The Nikkei reveals financials before listed companies do in their quarterly reports or other statements. Today, the newspaper says it has learned that GREE (3632) will likely announce that sales and profit went down in the April-June period, both year-on...
Mobage operator DeNA (2432) and Tokyo-based mobile game maker gloops (aquired by Nexon (3659) last October) have announced their first co-developed title. The RPG, which is dubbed Dragon Eclipse and looks very promising, is the first game to come out of the DeNA-gloops partnership that was...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry