By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE‘s success or failure as a platform outside Japan depends on the number of high-quality developers the company will be able to rope in. Today GREE International announced progress on that front: two US-based social game makers agreed to join GREE’s globally integrated platform...
As its Ameba-based social gaming platform is around the corner, CyberAgent sure needs some creative firepower to be able to develop as many games internally as possible. The company announced that it invested in Hoolai, a Beijing-based game developer that’s backed by Sequoia China, Greylock...
Lord Of Vermillion, a collectible card game franchise launched by Square Enix in Japanese arcades in 2008, is going social. Square Enix is currently seeing good sales with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social game that’s not embedded in a social network. Like Diffusion, Lord Of Vermillion is...
Tokyo-based gumi is continuing to work on its plan to go global: after opening an office in South Korea this month, the biggest 3rd-party social game provider on GREE (and a GREE investee) just did the same in Singapore. gumi Asia, Pte ltd., was established on April 12 (two days after the Korea...
Tokyo-based gloops, the biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, announced that its social card battle game Magigate now has one million users on Mobage. The title was launched back in February and racked up 100,000 users in the first 7 hours. DeNA’s strategic partner gloops needed a total of...
How can you beat the current engineer crunch that’s slowing down growth in Japan and elsewhere? GREE thinks it can motivate young engineers by way of a global contest, which is dubbed “SamurAI Coding” and will kick off in July. In cooperation with Information Processing Society of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry