By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s National Consumer Affairs Agency hasn’t even officially confirmed plans to regulate the lucrative gacha mechanism in social games, but listed companies in this industry in particular are already suffering. The list of the biggest losers at the Tokyo Stock Exchange today reads like a...
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...
KLab has been relatively serious about doing business outside Japan so far: the company owns Manila-based game maker Cyscorpions, established KLab Global in Singapore, and just bought a foreigner-led gaming startup called Pikkle in Tokyo. And now KLab is going to the US: the company announced it...
When do you know a country’s gaming market has gone into overdrive? When a publisher goes and introduces a printed magazine entirely dedicated to social horse racing games (yes, those exist). Keiba Keita Game Collection (“Mobile Horse Racing Game Collection”), which is available...
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...
Here is an answer I gave to the question on popular Q&A site Quora: It very much depends on the game, but the social card games usually start by giving you a few cards so you can actually start playing. There are a few ways to obtain cards (to complete the deck) and interact with players. There...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry