By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It’s a mini trend: social games on smartphones that are not embedded in Mobage or GREE – but do pretty well anyway. Following Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo, it’s Square Enix newest title that sees success with this strategy. “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a great...
Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker Drecom has rolled out its second game in English in the American App Store, Monster Arms. The first such title, Spirit Force, never did really well after its release last year, but it’s still available (download). And just like the first attempt...
Bandai Namco’s excellent, Gundam-based Sci-Fi social game Gundam Masters reached the two million user milestone on GREE. The title was released on September 1 last year and racked up the first million users in about 4 weeks. In other words, growth slowed down significantly, but Namco Bandai...
Growth clearly slowed down for Dragon Collection, the biggest third-party game on GREE, in recent months, but it now has reached 6 million users. Maker Konami announced the milestone inside its most successful social game yesterday (see below). Dragon Collection hit 5 million users on GREE in...
Japanese news site BLOGOS, not really a big supporter of the social gaming industry in Japan and of GREE in particular (the blog ran several critical articles in recent weeks), has made public that GREE again stopped the trading function in their top game, social card battle game doliland. The...
GREE caused quite a splash a few days ago when the company announced a deal with Dentsu under which the advertising giant is to promote the platform internationally. And now Dentsu started doing what they’re supposed to do – in airports. You read that right, somebody decided the best...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry