By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
What an exit today in Japan’s social gaming industry: Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$6 billion market cap – more than DeNA or GREE) has acquired gloops (corporate site). The size of the deal reaches a staggering Yen 36.5 billion...
Lord Of The Dragons, the first English-language title by Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker KLab, has hit the top spot in the US App Store ranking for free games. According to KLab’s press release, this was the case on September 28 (and probably for a few hours) only, and God knows...
A few weeks after the first cautious announcement, GungHo finally announced they will take Puzzle & Dragons, their impossibly successful mobile social game, global today. The title was launched in Japan in February on iOS and got ported to Android just last week. Puzzle & Dragons is...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry