By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Love and dating sim specialist Voltage has announced a pretty interesting new title for the Japanese market. It’s the first time the Tokyo-based (and listed) company uses IP for a game, and it’s a big one. Gossip Girl – New York De Koi No Yokan (Gossip Girl – Anticipation Of...
I said it before, and I say it again: god Mammon sure loves Japan’s social gaming business. And I think this quick update to highlight a comparison (August 18, 2012) between Zynga and their Japanese competitors is well justified: Zynga’s market cap at the NASDAQ currently stands at $2.3...
Rage Of Bahamut is being advertised on Japanese TV again. As I previously mentioned, TV commercials for social games are not really rare in this country, especially for the Mobage and GREE platforms and selected individual titles. Rage Of Bahamut’s first TV commercial was broadcast in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry