By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based GungHo, maker of Japan’s most successful platform-free social game Puzzle & Dragons, is ready to invest more in marketing their flagship title. Puzzle & Dragons isn’t using the Mobage or GREE networks but has racked up 1.5 million users so far – in Japan only...
NHN Japan has announced that LINE Birzzle, the first social game released on the LINE platform, reached 10 million downloads worldwide. Developed by Korea-based Enfeel, the title hit iOS and Android on July 4 this year and managed to rack up 2 million users in 24 hours. LINE Birzzle needed just 97...
The Nikkei caused a big splash two weeks ago when the business daily broke the news that Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (around 60 million subscribers) is planning to enter the social gaming business. The information available back then was relatively thin, but Docomo...
Tokyo-based Cygames, the maker behind super-successful social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut, just announced that its biggest smash hit is now available on Mobage China. Generally speaking, DeNA is extremely quiet when it comes to the performance of the Mobage brand in China, but it recently came...
Capcom and Tokyo-based social game maker Gloops (which was recently acquired for US$470 million by Nexon) have released “Resident Evil: Clan Master” on Mobage in Japan today. The title, actually dubbed Biohazard: Clan Master (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name), is available on Mobage...
“GREE Loves Indies” – that’s the name of a new program GREE International has just set up. Under the initiative, the company is reaching out to US-based developers (Japan or other countries are out) to develop games for its global platform. GREE plans to collect applications...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry