By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Gacha, the biggest money-making mechanic in Japan’s social gaming industry, is about to get transformed radically. A sub-form of this electronic draw concept, “kompu gacha” (or “complete gacha”), was regulated by the Japanese government a few weeks ago. The kompu gacha...
Dark Summoner, a mobile social card battle game made by Nagoya-based Ateam, continues to do well. The title was released worldwide on iOS on February 23 this year, on Android on July 18, and hit 1 million downloads on July 27 – after around 170 days. And today Ateam announced that Dark...
Kompu what? DeNA released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 today (April to June 2012), and things are looking pretty good for the company. Apparently, the kompu gacha (complete gacha) shock that hit Japan’s social gaming industry in May, didn’t have that much of an effect on the...
Social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut racked up 3 million players outside Japan, maker Cygames announced today. The Mobage title hit 2 million users outside this country on July 10, meaning it took just 28 days to add the third million. Inside Mobage’s Japanese platform, Rage of Bahamut has...
Sekigahara Engi, a social card battle game developed by Tokyo-based D2C, hit the 1 million user mark on July 2 (the news was made public on Monday). The interesting bullet point here is that the app is only available in Japanese, only on smartphones (download for iOS and Android here), and...
Way back in September 2009, GREE sued DeNA for infringing the copyright on their hit social game Tsuri Star (Fishing Star outside Japan). GREE claimed that its biggest rival (or to be more precise: the developer of the game, Tokyo-based mobile tech company Orso) copied certain designs and game...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry