By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Even though Gameloft operates its own social network for their games (Gameloft Live), the company has partnered up with GREE to release a few titles in which the social element is especially strong. The first such title, Gang Domination, was released a few weeks ago on GREE’s global platform...
LINE, the popular messenger app made by NHN Japan, is now available for Blackberry OS, the company announced yesterday. As almost nobody in Japan uses a Blackberry (I’d say the “man on the street” wouldn’t even know what the term Blackberry means), this version was created...
One of GREE‘s biggest Japanese brands, Monpla (short for Monster Planet), is getting a global treatment. The company has released Monpla Splash for iOS yesterday, a new social RPG (in English) that’s based on the original game GREE released in Japan in summer 2010. GREE explains: MONPLA...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry