By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
It’s the third title in about 4 weeks: GREE is planning to shut down another one of their first-party social games, Dragon Master, on August 24. Earlier this month, GREE announced it will scratch Bakumatsu Kingdom (on July 2) and Sangokushi Kingdom (which will be removed today). GREE...
Dark Summoner, a mobile social card battle game available in English and Japanese, has racked up 1 million downloads, maker Ateam is reporting. What’s interesting is that Dark Summoner was released on February 23 this year (in Japan and elsewhere), meaning the title took just about 150 days...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry