By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Dragon Collection, the biggest 3rd-party social game on GREE, is finally getting an English version. Maker Konami released an iOS app in the Canadian App Store on August 21 (it’s not available anywhere else at this point). The company couldn’t resist and write that the game has six...
This is a pretty smart move: GREE announced that they will establish a wholly owned subsidiary that will do nothing but create and sell physical goods based on their social games. Dubbed “GREE Entertainment Products” (tentative), the new company is set to start operations next month. It...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry