By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
As far as headcount is concerned, GREE has been growing rapidly in recent months in the US (you can use the “hires” tag provided by tech blog Inside Mobile Apps to keep track of the company’s development on that front). But it seems like the hiring spree has just been put on hold...
Major Tokyo-based social game maker gumi has today officially announced its first social game in English: Knight Legends is a port of a Japanese title gumi released last year on GREE (“Kishido” was pretty successful and went on to win a platform award from GREE earlier this year). The...
Capcom today announced that its subsidiary Beeline Interactive is working on a mobile social game based on the Ghostbusters movies. The company says the title “aims to increase communications among families by using a social game that incorporates a popular movie”. Apparently, the goal...
This is a critical title for GREE: Konami just released Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the first social game in the Metal Gear franchise, on the platform. Both GREE and Konami announced the Unity 3D game during a special event in Japan at the end of August. I then had the chance to play an early...
Japan’s hit chat app LINE (80 million users worldwide and counting) continues to amaze. Maker NHN Japan announced that puzzle game LINE Pop hit 10 million downloads on iOS and Android – in just 12 days. The title was released on November 20, along with a few other apps using the LINE...
Think what you want about Rage Of Bahamut, but there is something about the game that gets people excited. (The best analysis out there in English is provided by Frenzoo CEO Simon Newstead over on his personal blog – a must read.) Rage Of Bahamut maker Cygames just announced that the Korean...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry