By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Square Enix took a long time to finish for their latest social RPG, but at long last, Emperors Saga is now live on GREE for smartphones and feature phones. The game was announced exactly a year ago (even pre-registration started), but reportedly Square Enix wasn’t happy with the quality of...
Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo’s impossibly successful mobile social game, has finally made the move from iOS to Android. Released in the Japanese App Store back in February, the title is one of the first examples of a successful Japanese social game (on smartphones) that’s not distributed...
I don’t think this is surprising to anyone: GREE just announced it has acquired another American company, following Openfeint and Funzio. This time the target was App Ant, a social games studio based in California. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. App Ant has worked together with...
GREE is getting ready for their appearance at the Tokyo Game Show 2012 next week, the second after the event last year. Visitors can expect a keynote speech from GREE CEO Yoshikazu, a brand new GREE first-party title, and a total of 33 games at the company’s booth. Here’s the complete...
The number of 3D social games in Japan is slowly increasing, and Dark Menace from Tokyo-based Grasshopper Universe (not to be confused with Grasshopper Manufacture) is the latest such title. It just went live on Mobage for smartphones in Japan (Android, iOS). In a nutshell, Dark Menace is a...
In June, Bandai Namco caused quite a splash when the company announced a partnership with GREE under which a number of selected social games would be released on GREE’s Japanese and global platforms. (Before that, Bandai Namco inked a similar deal with Mobage in 2011, which was even refreshed in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry