By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Coupons, horoscopes, social networking features, music, movies, maps, shopping, news, comics, games: NHN Japan is ready to throw everything they can think of at LINE‘s current 75 million users. It seems like NHN Japan is trying to see what will stick. And today the company announced it has...
This isn’t a big surprise actually: LINE operator NHN Japan just announced that puzzle game LINE Pop racked up 3 million downloads across iOS and Android and worldwide – in 24 hours. LINE Pop is one of the second batch of games using the platform’s social features and distribution...
The Nikkei recently ran an article in which Japan’s biggest business daily compared the operating profits of DeNA and GREE in a handy chart. The newspaper looked back at every quarter since July-September 2010, as both companies reported numbers for the last financial quarter (DeNA, GREE) a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry