By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
The flood of Japanese social card battle games aimed at the global market continues: Tokyo-based Gloops, which was just acquired by Nexon, released “Warriors Of Odin” on Mobage yesterday. The title is the company’s first social game in English and is currently available on Mobage...
Everybody reading this will know that Japan’s social gaming industry is “big”, has been growing at a fast clip in recent years and is projected to expand in the years to come. Domestic sales of video game hardware and software, however, have been dropping in the last five years...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry