By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based game maker Aiming released Kingdom Corps on Google Play, the English-language version of the Japanese hit “Lord Of Knights”. The social RPG/strategy hybrid has been downloaded over 400,000 times in Japan (and perhaps more importantly, it has been monetizing very well, too)...
NHN Japan today said that games offered on the in-app game platform on LINE have been downloaded a total of 100 million times so far. The company opened the app to game developers in July last year. Most of the titles on “LINE Game” have been doing extremely well – social shooter Dragon...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has passed the 10-million user mark. The title hit the milestone on March 9, just 19 days after reaching 9 million players. This is interesting because these numbers show that growth isn’t slowing down, as can be seen in this chart from Social...
The social gaming industry in Japan continues to mature, and the new title Tokyo-based Pokelabo announced must be seen as another step in the right direction: instead of creating yet another social RPG or card battler, the company decided to go for the action genre this time. Details are scarce at...
So far, LINE Game, the in-app gaming platform LINE operator NHN Japan launched last summer has been doing extremely well – most recently with Dragon Flight and Theater Town. And now it seems that NHN Japan is ready to step on the gas: the mega-popular original app has been advertised on...
Mega-popular chat app LINE added 2 more titles to its game platform, namely Dragon Flight and Theater Town. Dragon Flight is a shooting game made by Korean game maker Nextfloor. The company released the title last year in English actually – without using LINE or any other platform. Touch...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry