By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Capcom and Tokyo-based social game maker Gloops (which was recently acquired for US$470 million by Nexon) have released “Resident Evil: Clan Master” on Mobage in Japan today. The title, actually dubbed Biohazard: Clan Master (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name), is available on Mobage...
The flood of Japanese social card battle games aimed at the global market continues: Tokyo-based Gloops, which was just acquired by Nexon, released “Warriors Of Odin” on Mobage yesterday. The title is the company’s first social game in English and is currently available on Mobage...
Korean tech blog beSUCCESS is organizing the beLAUNCH 2012 conference, the first global startup event ever to be hosted in that country (from June 13-14). The event is a little light on games, unfortunately, but offers an interesting program with of speakers coming to Seoul from all over the world...
MapleStory, the super hit MMORPG from Korea, was the basis for a social game released on the Mobage platform back in October 2011, MapleStory: Bokura No Boken (“Our Adventures”). And now GREE is getting a MapleStory-based title too. Dubbed “MapleStory – Brave Monsters”, the new...
After inking a deal with SK Telecom in August last year and opening its own office in Seoul in October, GREE has made another move in South Korea: it entered a capital tie-up with Mobicle, a local developer of smartphone games. GREE bought 224,178 shares in the studio (6.8% of its outstanding stock...
Japanese site Game Watch has some more information about DeNA’s future plans with Mobage-town. I reported earlier today about the new Mobage-town smartphone version, but there is more: 1) International version Dena will launch the international version of Mobage-town (simply dubbed...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry