By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
GREE started accepted pre-registrations for Medal Of Monsters, their next first-party social game, in Japan yesterday. What’s interesting is that GREE is marketing the title as a mix between a so-called “medal game” and “board game”. The goal is to fire medals at...
Japanese chat app sensation LINE (75 million users and counting) has done the inevitable: it started integrating with Facebook. Maker NHN Japan says that while the Facebook connection went live on Android first, LINE users on iOS can expect the same feature in the near future. The main bullet...
Mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk (66 million users worldwide) has opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with 3 titles. The roll-out in Japan is part of a “global” release maker Kakao announced a few days ago. Games available on KakaoTalk in its native...
KLab, the social game maker from Japan with 20 million users, has released Eternal Uprising on Android, its second title in English. Eternal Uprising follows Lord Of The Dragons, which hit the US App Store on September 14 and shot up all the way to No. 1 in the same store a few days later. Lord Of...
DeNA just announced a “business alliance” with Mixi under which the Mobage operator and Japan’s biggest homegrown social network will share the same game development platform starting as early as January 2013. DeNA explains: Beginning January 2013, developers can create their...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry