How much money can be made in mobile social card battle games? Assuming that no makers are gaming the system, it seems like quite a lot. In Japan, well over 70% of the top 20 games on Mobage and GREE belong to this genre (or at least have a card-collecting element in them). There is no end in...
Mystic Monsters: Pokelabo’s Card Battle Game For The Global Market [Social Games]
Tokyo-based social game maker (and Sega partner) Pokelabo has released “Mystic Monsters” on Tuesday, a social card battle game for iOS and Android. Set on the island of Atlantis, Mystic Monsters is being pitched as a “dark fantasy RPG” that allows players to form guilds to...
DeNA Makes It Official: Mobage Starts Connecting With Facebook [Social Games]
Big news from DeNA today, and I’ll get right to it: the company just officially announced in Japan that Mobage now connects with Facebook. This is huge. The press release is relatively curt (and available in Japanese only), as this isn’t exactly great news for DeNA (I’ll come to...
Final Fantasy Brigade On Mobage Gets Two TV Commercials [Social Games]
Japan is the only country in the world where social games are being advertised on national TV on a regular basis. The newest title to get the TV promotion treatment is Final Fantasy Brigade, Square Enix’ first social version of the popular RPG franchise. Final Fantasy Brigade is doing very...
Will The Collectible Cards Game Genre In Mobile Social Games Pick Up In South East Asia? [Social Games]
I am a hardcore user of Q&A service Quora where I just gave a detailed answer to this question: Will collectible cards game genre in mobile social games pick up in South East Asia? My answer: In Japan, by far the world’s biggest market for mobile social games, social card games (social...
Uma Musume: Japan’s Latest Mega Hit Mobile Game Prints Cash
Uma Musume is the last really big hit in Japan’s mobile game industry, following the popular RPG Dragon Quest Walk from Colopl (3668) in 2019. Released only domestically in February 2021, Uma Musume instantly climbed up not only the download but also up the grossing rankings – and more...