By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I think DeNA has been clearly outpacing GREE lately when it comes to high-quality first-party games. Social RPG “Guilty Dragon”, social shooter “Macross SP Deculture”, social RPG “Valkyries In The Twilight”, and card battle game Souken No Cross Edge all look pretty good to me. And now DeNA is...
And yet another social card battle game from a Japanese maker is going global: this time, from Axel Mark. The Tokyo-based (and listed) company last month announced a cooperation with DeNA for their international business. At that time, it already said that Kingdom Wars will be the first title being...
If you need yet another piece of evidence that the gaming industry is in the midst of a mobile revolution, take a look at the charts below. This first one, created by Rick Martin from tech blog Tech In Asia, shows the distribution of mobile versus console games during the Tokyo Game Show 2012...
Konami used the Tokyo Game Show 2012 (which ended today) to announce an important milestone: the company says the number of registered users playing their social games has hit 25 million. In Japan, Konami is active across a number of platforms, including Mobage and GREE. It recently rolled out Mixi...
“1 Million People’s Ninja Gaiden”, the first social game based on Koei Tecmo’s popular action game franchise Ninja Gaiden, is now available on Mobage. The title was announced four weeks ago. Koei Tecmo decided to launch the title on Mobage on Android first (download, Japanese Google Play...
Just four weeks ago, GREE caused quite a splash with the announcement of a whole new line of business: merchandising based on popular characters from their first-party games. And now the company not only confirmed the final name of the subsidiary it spun off for this business (“GREE...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry