By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
What I learned is that many people in the social gaming industry outside Japan don’t know that GREE and Mobage operator DeNA have actually been running multiple platforms in Japan over the last few years, not just one. Apart from Yahoo Mobage on the PC, these are GREE and Mobage on: Japanese...
Konami’s top social game Dragon Collection is now available for download in the US App Store, after a 3-month test drive in Canada. The game didn’t really do that well in Canada, but it seems Konami and its distribution partner GREE are now ready to see how American users react to the...
Just a few days after social gaming company enish, Tokyo-based Colopl has filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public at the Mothers section for startups. Colopl will get listed on December 13 (ticker: 3668), two days after enish. Colopl is actually a very interesting developer. The company is...
This is getting weird: just 24 hours after entering a new partnership with GREE, Yahoo Japan announced today that it’s ready to strengthen the existing partnership with GREE’s arch enemy, Mobage operator DeNA. This “double play” (as Pocketgamer puts it) is not only a great...
Japan’s most successful smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is finally available in the US App Store, as tweeted out by GungHo America earlier today. The free-to-play mix between RPG and puzzle game can (and should, if I may add) be downloaded by clicking here. GungHo announced the release in...
It took a while, but the multi-billion dollar Japanese social gaming industry finally has its own association, named JASGA (Japan Social Game Association). JASGA’s establishment has (no doubt) been accelerated by the kompu gacha shock that hit the industry in May, followed by public pressure...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry