By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Popular virtual world Ameba Pigg hit 13.1 million users in July, maker CyberAgent announced today (the number was actually revealed in the Q3 report already). Ameba Pigg, which is known as Ameba Pico outside Japan, had 10 million users in September 2011 and 12 million in April 2012. It launched in...
Tokyo Game Show 2011, E3, China Joy, gamescom: GREE appears to see value in setting up booths at game exhibitions around the world. The company today announced it will again participate in the Tokyo Game Show (the 2012 exhibition will take place next month). GREE explains: GREE’s exhibit this...
NHN Japan sure isn’t losing any time regarding their plan to transform social app LINE into a platform. Following games, a set of social networking features, horoscopes, a greeting card app, a drawing app, and a camera app, the company today announced yet another service based on LINE. With...
LINE, the super-popular social app from NHN Japan, is now counting 55 million users, up from 50 million a few weeks ago. According to the company, 25 million users are located in Japan. NHN Japan also discloses that LINE Birzzle, the first social game using the newly introduced LINE platform...
Mobage in the US absolutely needs more games if it wants to continue to call itself a platform. It’s been over a year after launching the English-language platform on Android (and later on iOS), and the number of titles is still well below 100 – and many of them are first-party games...
Puzzle & Dragons, the super-popular social RPG for iOS (Japanese iTunes), has passed the 1.1 million download mark, maker GungHo announced today in Tokyo. The game hit 1 million downloads, on iOS and in Japan only, last month. It has been occupying the top grossing position in the App Store for...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry