By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I am looking forward to speak at the so-called Startup Asia conference in Singapore next week, organized by Asian technology blog Penn Olson. What’s interesting about the event is that it is highly international, with Japan apparently sending the most foreign attendees (full list). The...
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Mobage operator DeNA have announced an e-commerce partnership. The companies are in the process of setting up an online shopping service for Mixi members that’s scheduled to start in late March this year. The idea here is to combine...
Given how big the domestic social gaming market already is and how quickly it is projected to grow, it’s not really a surprise that Japan gets a “Social Game Academy”. Needless to say, it’s the first company (this obviously isn’t an NPO) of its kind anywhere in the...
Tokyo-based market research company looops is running a regular web TV show that focuses on different topics of Japan’s web industry each time. The show yesterday was about “the future of social games” in Japan and elsewhere. During the show, looops employee Kensuke Komura pulled...
Emblem Of The Gods, a social card battle game DeNA launched on Mobage last November, has racked up 500,000 users. DeNA first released the title on Mobage for feature phones before rolling out a smartphone (browser) version in December. Overall, Emblem Of The Gods is doing OK (the game is in the top...
It seems Namco Bandai just added quite a few social gamers to its member base of 10 million: One Piece Grand Collection, the social game based on the wildly popular anime the company released last week, boasts one million registered users on Mobage. What’s amazing is that it took just 4 days...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry