By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA today announced it inked a deal with Hasbro under which the Mobage operator has a three-year exclusive right to create and publish games based on the Transformers franchise. The first Transformers game will hit Mobage on iOS and Android worldwide “later this year” – with the...
Good news coming from the world’s biggest mobile market are sparse so far (to say the least), but DeNA isn’t letting go of China. Far from it. Japan’s largest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (about 60 million subscribers) announced it has established a joint venture with China’s...
Big news from DeNA today, and I’ll get right to it: the company just officially announced in Japan that Mobage now connects with Facebook. This is huge. The press release is relatively curt (and available in Japanese only), as this isn’t exactly great news for DeNA (I’ll come to...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
Rage of Bahamut, the social card battle game offered through Mobage‘s international network, has proven to be a smash hit – and a money printing machine. It’s not known how successful exactly (from a financial perspective) the game is, but there are a few pointers that lead to a...
Apparently, things aren’t going too well between DeNA and Namco Bandai, two companies that entered a spectacular partnership right after the Tokyo Game Show last year. Following the deal, Namco Bandai rolled out a number of hit titles on Mobage, i.e. Tales of Kizna, Idolmaster, and mega hit...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry