By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
After opening pre-registration back in December, Konami has launched BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL for Mobage on feature phones (official website). The new title is a social card battle game, in which players have to collect cards featuring characters from the 1980s high school manga the title is based on...
Nice win for Konami: Sengoku Collection, a social card game Konami published on Mobage in December last year, will be turned into an anime series on Japanese TV from spring 2012. In the fantasy game, players need to collect cards to become a shogun in medieval Japan (there are currently over 600...
Fired up by healthy sales numbers last quarter, Konami is continuing to churn out social games: the company announced BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL for Mobage on feature phones (official website). The new title is based on a Japanese high school manga from the 1980s – and it’s yet another social...
I would have guessed Konami’s J-League Dream Eleven has more users on GREE (where it has been among the top three third-party titles for quite a while now), but according to Gamebiz, the social soccer card game has just hit one million registered players. Competitor EA/gumi’s FIFA World...
I am hearing that Konami’s super hit social game Dragon Collection has been losing steam in recent weeks, but the company yesterday announced that it now counts five million players for the GREE title (feature phone and smartphone users combined). As other companies do, Konami celebrates the...
Konami has released a social horse racing game on Mobage that has a very interesting twist: some races taking place in the game are timed with races taking place in the real world. The company bought an official license for “Dream Stallion” from the JRA (Japan Racing Association) to be...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry