By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Candy Crush maker King has been testing the waters for a while but now decided it is worth entering Japan’s mobile gaming market with an own office. The company has set up “King Japan” in Tokyo to take care of the local user base. It’s the 10th King office, next to presences...
Mobage operator DeNA (2432) and Tokyo-based mobile game maker gloops (aquired by Nexon (3659) last October) have announced their first co-developed title. The RPG, which is dubbed Dragon Eclipse and looks very promising, is the first game to come out of the DeNA-gloops partnership that was...
Back in November 2012, mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with three Android titles (Anipang, Tap Tap Blitz, and Puzzle Zoo Zoo). Today operator Kakao Japan, which is 50% owned by Yahoo Japan, expanded said platform to iOS and...
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...
Surprise in Japan’s social gaming industry today: DeNA announced it plans to acquire a 20.03% stake in Tokyo-based Cygames, the company behind card battle game mega hit Rage Of Bahamut. The deal is scheduled to close next month. Mobage operator DeNA is ready to pay a whopping US$92 million (7...
Following Nexon’s US$469 million acquisition of gloops earlier this month, Japan’s social gaming industry saw another spectacular exit today. GREE announced it plans to acquire Tokyo-based social game maker Pokelabo on October 30 – for a handsome US$173 million (13.8 billion yen)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry