By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA not only released their financial projections for the first quarter of this fiscal year today, the Mobage operator also said it plans to buy back a good portion of its own shares – a maximum of 14 million of them. And DeNA is ready to spend up to a quarter billion US dollars (20 billion...
DeNA today announced its financial results forecast for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 (April to June 2012), and things aren’t looking too bad – in the light of the recent complete (kompu) gacha shock and the regulation that came with it. Because of the kompu gacha shock, DeNA decided...
DeNA can be happy: Rage of Bahamut, developed by Tokyo-based Cygames, was, for a short period of time, the top grossing app on both the App Store and Google Play in the US. After becoming a hit in Japan, the social card battle game was released on Mobage for Android in February this year. Rage of...
LINE, a social/messenger app for smartphones and other devices, made by NHN Japan (the Tokyo-based office of the Korean web company), keeps growing and growing. Just a few weeks after hitting 30 million registered users (on April 18), the app reached the 40 million mark on June 6. Growth seems to...
GREE International just launched a “promotion site” (I don’t know what else to call it) to promote their service to an English-speaking audience. Not only is the design weird (the homepage looks like the cover of a printed brochure), the content is, too: the company basically just...
Korean tech blog beSUCCESS is organizing the beLAUNCH 2012 conference, the first global startup event ever to be hosted in that country (from June 13-14). The event is a little light on games, unfortunately, but offers an interesting program with of speakers coming to Seoul from all over the world...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry