By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Social RPG “Guilty Dragon”, social shooting game “Macross SP Deculture” and social RPG “Valkyries In The Twilight”: the list of what DeNA calls next-generation games for Mobage is getting longer. Yesterday the company released yet another title that’s being...
GREE is actively exploring new fields of business as of late: just a few days after announcing a new subsidiary for merchandise based on GREE IP, the company today says it’s planning to expand to TV content, too. As you’d might expect, TV in this case means mobile TV, or mobile social...
The puzzle RPGs are coming: Puzzle & Dragons, the super-popular social RPG from Tokyo-based GungHo, is getting some competition from a similar game called Sengoku Puzzle!! Animal Daikassen (“Warring States Puzzle!! Big Battle Of The Animals”). Osaka-based Racjin was clearly inspired...
In a new interview with Pocketgamer.biz, GREE International CEO (and GREE proper’s CFO) Naoki Aoyagi gave out the goal to generate 10% of all of his company’s sales outside Japan next year. Here is my recent analysis of GREE’s financial performance in the US so far. The 10% goal...
Legendary video game series Ninja Gaiden is getting the social treatment. Maker Koei Tecmo announced “1 Million People’s Ninja Gaiden” for Mobage yesterday, a mix between 3D action and social card battle game. Players will take on the role of ninja Ryu Hayabusa (who is also the...
Back in May, GREE extended the launch of their global platform from a single point in time to several months, namely May to September. One of the main reasons for this decision was that it gave GREE more time to sign up more 3rd-party developers – after all, a platform without those partners...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry