By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based social game maker (and Sega partner) Pokelabo has released “Mystic Monsters” on Tuesday, a social card battle game for iOS and Android. Set on the island of Atlantis, Mystic Monsters is being pitched as a “dark fantasy RPG” that allows players to form guilds to...
Big news from DeNA today, and I’ll get right to it: the company just officially announced in Japan that Mobage now connects with Facebook. This is huge. The press release is relatively curt (and available in Japanese only), as this isn’t exactly great news for DeNA (I’ll come to...
Unity and social card battle games: not exactly two terms that have been used very often in one sentence – so far. But Tokyo-based Rozetta has now used the game engine to create Dare Demo Hero (Everybody’s A Hero), a “3D Hero Card Game” for GREE on Android (Google Play). The...
NHN Japan’s super-successful messenger app LINE (45 million downloads in less than a year), which is soon to be turned into a platform, has its first game out. And LINE Birzzle is an instant hit. The puzzle game has actually been released by South Korea-based enfeel a while ago (product...
When NHN Japan announced its plan to turn messenger app LINE into a platform on July 3, the company showed a list of 3rd-party game providers that are ready to offer smartphone titles linked with the app. Apart from NHN itself, these are the developers: Square Enix Konami Taito Alfa System (a video...
NHN Japan caused a big splash yesterday in Japan when the company announced its bold plans to transform LINE into something like a platform for games, music, coupons, books, news, and tons of other content. In addition, the messenger app itself will become more of a Facebook-type of social network...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry