By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
That was quick: just two weeks after the release in Canada, Tokyo-based social game maker KLab started offering Lord Of The Dragons in the US App Store yesterday (free download). It’s the first major release in English for KLab, which established KLab America in San Francisco in April this...
It looks like the number of active users for Facebook in Japan is now higher than that of Mixi. In March this year, Facebook caused a splash when the Tokyo office revealed its number of MAU doubled to 10 million from September 2011. Back then, I wrote: “If Facebook can keep this growth rate...
I can’t say this is a big surprise: Zynga announced it will release the two original games that its Japanese subsidiary developed so far, Montopia and Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, in the West. Both titles belong to the social card battle game genre and have been released in Japan earlier this year...
GREE just announced it has secured the rights to create the first “official” sumo social game, Oozumou Card Kessen (Professional Sumo Card Battle). The company is developing the title in-house and plans to release it on GREE for feature phones and smartphones in November (pre...
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced that it has teamed up with Capcom in a pretty big deal under which the Osaka-based video game company will release a total six social games on the GREE platform by the end of the year. The six titles are: Everybody’s Capcom All Stars (release on...
Hit video game series “Professor Layton” is getting a new social version: DeNA today announced “Professor Layton and Seven Thieves of the Century”, a social game that Mobage users in Japan can pre-register for starting today (a launch date isn’t fixed yet). This is the second...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry