By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
It’s now safer than ever to call web conglomerate CyberAgent, which runs a whole range of services from online advertising to social networks and virtual worlds, “successful” in gaming, too. The Ameba operator is counting a whopping 30 million (registered) social game users across...
I always thought I have seen a lot of craziness in Japan’s mobile game industry over the last 5 years, but the Puzzle & Dragons boom in Japan is starting to scare me. Today, at the Osaka Stock Exchange, the market cap of maker GungHo rose 19.7% to hit a staggering US$4.6 billion...
In October last year, GREE took the wraps off a high-budget, next-generation social game called Zettai Bouei Leviathan (Total Defense Leviathan). Back then, I mentioned that the graphics were being created by anime studio GONZO and that the title would feature the voices of professional anime voice...
Sony sure seems to be in need of a lot of cash at the moment. In the last few days and weeks, the company sold off: the Sony Building in New York for US$1.1 billion the Sony City Osaki Building in Tokyo for US$1.2 billion and a portion of its stake in online medical service subsidiary M3 Inc. for...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry