By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s most successful platform-free smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is in the news again: the title, a mix between RPG and puzzle game, racked up 6 million downloads by December 31, 2012, maker GungHo is reporting. Puzzle & Dragons was launched in Japan on iOS in February and on Android...
Yesterday was a big day for DeNA: the Mobage operator yesterday unveiled a new corporate logo and announced it has changed its brand identity on a global scale. The company explains: DeNA’s new corporate logo expresses the company’s revamped corporate slogan: “Delight and Impact...
Stuck between consoles and mobile devices, PC gaming has never played a big role in Japan. The same has been true on the social front where Japanese makers focused on phones from the get-go, often leaving out the PC side altogether. One notable exception is Yahoo Mobage, a social gaming platform...
About 2 weeks ago, Bandai Namco revealed it is working on the first social game based on the popular Wizardry RPG series (which is especially popular in Japan). Dubbed “Wizardry – The Demon Tower Wars”, the F2P title is still scheduled to hit iPhone/iPod touch next month –...
Mega-popular chat app LINE is getting three new games, after NHN Japan launched five new titles just a few weeks ago. Needless to say, all of these are F2P and connect with LINE, i.e. allowing you to invite your friends from within the games. The three games are all “casual” and have...
This is a great PR move by GREE: the company today announced it will support “Tokyo 2020”, Japan’s bid to host the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games. GREE and official bid partner Yahoo Japan will jointly sponsor a promotional campaign that will be started nation-wide on December...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry