By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Just in time for the Japanese release of Star Wars 3D on the big screen (next month), Konami launched Star Wars Collection, a card battle game based on the movie series, on GREE today. Konami announced the social game last month, explaining: STAR WARS COLLECTION is a card game that will have...
Capcom wasn’t the only big company producing social games that reported financial results in the last days: rival Konami announced its numbers for the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year. Here’s is the basic overview. Social games are part of Konami’s Digital Entertainment...
Another IP-based social game in Japan, this time from Konami. The company announced the launch of Star Wars Collection, a social game based on the movie service, for GREE. Star Wars is obviously one of the biggest franchises out there, even though I doubt it will have the same effect in Japan that...
What do you do when you have a mobile social game that’s 1.5 years old, already has 5 million+ registered users on GREE and that may near the end of its life cycle soon? If you are Konami and have a super hit like Dragon Collection in your portfolio, you start promoting the game to acquire...
The biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced its social baseball card game “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” hit 2.5 million users on January 8. The game was released on August 18, reached 1.5 million registered players on October 19, and 2 million on November 18...
Konami is (again) linking a social game with an arcade title: the company has released a social game called Hunter Chronicle which works in conjunction with Steel Chronicle, an action game released in Japanese arcades last year. Konami explains: Its counterpart, “HUNTER CHRONICLE,” is a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry