By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Rage Of Bahamut continues to do well outside Japan: the social card battle game, developed by Tokyo-based Cyberagent company Cygames, hit 2 million downloads outside this country on July 10. The title was released on Mobage for Android by DeNA/ngmoco in late February this year. Rage Of Bahamut hit...
Puzzle & Dragons, developed by Tokyo-based GungHo, continues to do well. The title is the first mega-hit in the Japanese social game market (on smartphones) that’s not using the Mobage, GREE, or Mixi networks. Puzzle & Dragons was released in the Japanese App Store on February 20 this...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry