By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan is probably the only country in the world where even TV stations produce social games (more on that at a later time). But sometimes even this nation’s mighty broadcasters need support, and today GREE announced a pretty interesting deal with Tokyo-based broadcaster Fuji TV. Under the...
What’s the size of Japan’s social gaming market? I am constantly monitoring sources from Japan that try to answer this question, and I published some of the results the last time here or as an infographic here (note: I don’t publish all the results I find publicly). Now...
Tokyo-based social game maker CyberX has teamed up with Take-Two to create NBA 2K All Stars, a social basketball card game using real players, for GREE. The license makes it possible to feature a total of 500 real basketball players from all 30 NBA teams. CyberX and Take-Two decided to put Michael...
Valkyries In The Twilight – that’s the name of a new first-party game DeNA is currently developing in Japan (and from the looks of it, it’s clearly geared towards the domestic market). The social RPG takes place in Tokyo in 2020. Players have to lead a group of female high-school...
Finally: BNDeNA, the joint venture announced by DeNA and Namco Bandai during the Tokyo Game Show last year (more here), has its first game ready. And it looks pretty nice, at least on pictures (more on that in a minute). “Macross SP Cross Deculture” is, thank god, not the ten millionth...
Unmei No Clan Battle (“The Clan Battle Of Fate”), a mobile social RPG released by Tokyo-based social game maker Pokelabo and Sega 3 weeks ago, is doing really well. After a very promising start (on June 22), the social card battle game, which also offer some real-time game elements, hit 200,000...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry