By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
During their press conference in Tokyo yesterday, NHN Japan went all-out to promote their super-successful messenger app LINE. Part of the plan is to expand the app to a full-fledged platform for games, coupons, music, and other content – complete with API support for third-party developers...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
That doesn’t happen very often: GREE has apparently decided to pull the plug on not one but two of their 1st-party games. The first title is Bakumatsu Kingdom, a “historic” war simulation set in the Edo period. GREE released the game just in November last year and shut it down...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry