By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
JOGA, the Japan Online Game Association, has released a summary of a new report on the status quo of Japan’s online gaming industry (as usual, the study is available only in Japanese). Following the study from the Japanese government from a few days ago, the JOGA report also sizes up the...
It took them a while, but DeNA in Tokyo announced that Mobage on iOS launched in South Korea on Monday (note: I can only read the press release in Japanese, and there is no English version). DeNA’s entry into Korea was first announced back in November 2011. Just like in the case of...
What’s the size of Japan’s social gaming market? I am constantly monitoring sources from Japan that try to answer this question, and I published some of the results the last time here or as an infographic here (note: I don’t publish all the results I find publicly). Now...
Valkyries In The Twilight – that’s the name of a new first-party game DeNA is currently developing in Japan (and from the looks of it, it’s clearly geared towards the domestic market). The social RPG takes place in Tokyo in 2020. Players have to lead a group of female high-school...
Finally: BNDeNA, the joint venture announced by DeNA and Namco Bandai during the Tokyo Game Show last year (more here), has its first game ready. And it looks pretty nice, at least on pictures (more on that in a minute). “Macross SP Cross Deculture” is, thank god, not the ten millionth...
Rage Of Bahamut continues to do well outside Japan: the social card battle game, developed by Tokyo-based Cyberagent company Cygames, hit 2 million downloads outside this country on July 10. The title was released on Mobage for Android by DeNA/ngmoco in late February this year. Rage Of Bahamut hit...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry