By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
First-person shooters aren’t really the first genre when one thinks about social or mobile games. But The Drowning is such a game, and it has been announced by no other company than DeNA. The Mobage operator explains: Under the leadership of industry veteran and free-to-play visionary Ben...
Think what you want about Rage Of Bahamut, but there is something about the game that gets people excited. (The best analysis out there in English is provided by Frenzoo CEO Simon Newstead over on his personal blog – a must read.) Rage Of Bahamut maker Cygames just announced that the Korean...
KLab, the social game maker from Japan with 20 million users, has released Eternal Uprising on Android, its second title in English. Eternal Uprising follows Lord Of The Dragons, which hit the US App Store on September 14 and shot up all the way to No. 1 in the same store a few days later. Lord Of...
DeNA just announced a “business alliance” with Mixi under which the Mobage operator and Japan’s biggest homegrown social network will share the same game development platform starting as early as January 2013. DeNA explains: Beginning January 2013, developers can create their...
The Nikkei recently ran an article in which Japan’s biggest business daily compared the operating profits of DeNA and GREE in a handy chart. The newspaper looked back at every quarter since July-September 2010, as both companies reported numbers for the last financial quarter (DeNA, GREE) a...
It’s a mystery to me why GREE, which has offices around the world and has no problem calling itself global, waited to publish its new financial report in English today – six days after releasing the original on November 14. There must be some “political” or PR/IR reasons for...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry