By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
With regulation possibly around the corner, that council six top Japanese social game makers and platforms formed last month has announced a first set of measures to react to the mounting criticism of the industry in Japanese media. The council consists of members...
As I expected, DeNA is introducing payment caps for virtual items in social games offered on Mobage for minors. The company is following competitor GREE, which has announced a very similar move last month. The background here is the mounting criticism in Japanese media (not by Japanese consumers...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry