By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Business daily The Nikkei reports that GREE‘s operating profit for the April-June 2012 quarter has dropped by 20% q-o-q to around US$255 million. That would still be an increase of over 100% y-o-y (and an incredible number by itself), but the number would mean that GREE saw, for the first...
It took them a while, but DeNA in Tokyo announced that Mobage on iOS launched in South Korea on Monday (note: I can only read the press release in Japanese, and there is no English version). DeNA’s entry into Korea was first announced back in November 2011. Just like in the case of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry