By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Osaka-based Dimps has released Alien Vs. Gunners for Mobage on Wednesday, a social shooting game in 3D (powered by Unity). The game offers extra-cute graphics and music, weird characters (see the screenshots below), and the following story: evil aliens are attacking planet Earth in the year...
Konami released their financial report for Q1 of fiscal 2013 (April to June 2012), and things aren’t looking too good for the company. Here’s the basic financial overview: Just like in Q1 of last fiscal, Konami’s social game segment made more money than its consumer games segment:...
On the road to (possibly) becoming a global mobile social gaming platform, Mobage operator DeNA has always been taking the Chinese market much more seriously than GREE. To recap, DeNA has so far signed deals with the following companies in China (in chronological order): AliBaba Kaixin001 Netdragon...
GREE announced a pretty interesting partnership with NCsoft yesterday: under the deal, the Korean company will release a new version of Lineage, its popular MMORPG, on GREE for mobile devices. GREE says that the new Lineage game is just the first title that will come out of the partnership...
I summarized my personal prediction on both GREE‘s and DeNA‘s chances of becoming the leading platform providers for mobile social games in the US (and globally) back in March. I was actually pessimistic in September 2011 already. In fact, I was pessimistic since I first started...
Capcom released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 (April to June 2012) today, and things are looking pretty good. All key numbers increased sharply, i.e. the operating profit (up 240% to 2.6 billion yen/US$33.3 billion) or net income, which is about four times higher at now US$12.6 million...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry