By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Quite a number of the bigger social game makers in Japan currently try to differentiate themselves by creating new titles based on valuable IP. Case in point: GREE, which today announced it has scored the rights to turn Bleach into a mobile social game in its network. Bleach is an action manga and...
Last month, GREE announced it plans to make a big showing for the first time in Europe, namely at the at the gamescom 2012 exhibition in Cologne, Germany. And now GREE revealed it will be present with a number of first-party and third-party games at the consumer hall 9.1, booth A021/B020. The...
GREE today announced plans to establish GREE Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary, in Vancouver. The company cites two reasons for the location: the vicinity to a number of other game makers (and personnel) and the fact that both Vancouver and Silicon Valley are in the same time zone. GREE...
Tokyo-based Cygames, a 100% subsidiary of Japanese web powerhouse Cyberagent, is on a roll. The company behind social game mega-hit Rage Of Bahamut announced it has registered its 10 millionth user on July 14. Cygames, which is barely a year old (established in May 2011), currently employs 262...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry