By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Quite a few financial results from social gaming companies are due in the next days, and CyberAgent is the first company to report (for the April-June 2012 quarter). In a nutshell, sales and operating profit were up, but the Japanese web powerhouse missed expectations from analysts – and got...
Mobage is seeing quite a few titles marketed as so-called “next-generation” social games lately: following social shooting game Macross SP Deculture and social RPG Valkyries In The Twilight, a new title called “Guilty Dragon” is supposed to help bring social games in Japan...
LINE continues to amaze. Just a few weeks after hitting 40 million downloads, NHN Japan’s social app passed the 50 million mark (on July 26 Japanese time, to be exact). LINE was first released in the Japanese App Store on June 23, 2011. It took 399 days to go from zero to 50 million...
JOGA, the Japan Online Game Association, has released a summary of a new report on the status quo of Japan’s online gaming industry (as usual, the study is available only in Japanese). Following the study from the Japanese government from a few days ago, the JOGA report also sizes up the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry