By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
One Piece Grand Collection, the social game based on the popular manga/anime series One Piece, now has 2 million registered users on Mobage. The title was launched by DeNA partner Namco Bandai just 17 days ago. It took the social figure collection game, which features various characters from One...
DeNA has released their financial report for Q3 FY2011 (October-December 2011) today, and the Mobage operator has no reason to be happy. Sales went up 16% year-on-year to 34.153 billion yen (US$445 million) – but that’s about the only positive key figure. All other numbers, first and...
Following One Piece and Final Fantasy Brigade, Mobage is about to get another super-hit game soon: DeNA announced Doraemon Hokkorina for spring this year, a social game based on the popular cartoon series Doraemon. Doraemon was first released as a manga in 1969, then turned into an anime series and...
Capcom wasn’t the only big company producing social games that reported financial results in the last days: rival Konami announced its numbers for the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year. Here’s is the basic overview. Social games are part of Konami’s Digital Entertainment...
Capcom released their financial results for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good. For the nine-month period through December 31, sales dropped by a whopping 29% to US$657 million year-on-year. In the same time frame, operating...
Monster Hunter, the super-popular (especially in Japan) action RPG series from Capcom, is getting the social game treatment again. Last year, Capcom released “Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima” on GREE where it went on to become a smash hit. Now it’s DeNA that can look forward to a new...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry