By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
14-year old CyberAgent is close to a radical transformation of one its main pillars of business, the Ameba platform. Over the years, Ameba has transformed itself from a pure blogging platform on PCs and feature phones to a cross-service platform (using a single log-in approach) and successfully...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba platform is becoming more and more popular. In their most recent financial report, the company has released some pretty interesting stats on how the blogging/social networking service grew over the last months in Japan. Monthly page views hit 36 billion in March –...
CyberAgent has been doing pretty well in recent months, and growth is continuing, especially in the company’s social gaming business unit. According to CyberAgent’s new financial report for its 2Q of fiscal 2012 (January to March this year), the company has been seeing “record...
Nice win for DeNA: Rage Of Bahamut, a social card battle game made by Tokyo-based Cygames (a CyberAgent subsidiary), is the top-grossing app on Google Play. The main bullet point here is that the Android app is part of the Mobage network since February this year. Industry blog Inside Mobile Apps...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry