Tokyo-based mobile contents provider MTI is planning to launch a Mobage and GREE competitor. Dubbed entag!, the mobile social gaming platform is set to start operations on January 11. Not too surprisingly, membership will be free. As Mobage and GREE, entag! will offer a host of casual social games...
Square Enix’ Final Fantasy Brigade Goes Live On Mobage [Social Games]
Another Japanese triple A video game brand is going social: it took a bit longer than announced last month, but Square Enix started offering Final Fantasy Brigade on Mobage today, a social game based on the super-popular RPG franchise. DeNA actually announced the title first back in October last...
Report: GREE’s Profit For The Last Quarter To Grow 300% Y-O-Y [Social Games]
The Nikkei just reported in its online edition that GREE will probably hit US$520 million in sales last quarter (three months through December 31). As if this wasn’t impressive enough, the paper says GREE is expecting operating profit to balloon to US$260 million. If the report turns out to...
Who’s Actually Playing Social Games In Japan? [Social Games]
GREE, DeNA‘s Mobage, Yahoo Mobage, Mixi, Hangame: there’s certainly no shortage of social game platform providers in Japan, and the same is true for social game content providers (I am estimating there are around 500 of these active in this country). But who is actually playing these...
Sega’s Kingdom Conquest Goes Social On Mobage [Social Games]
DeNA today announced that Sega has chosen Mobage to launch the online version of super-successful (and pretty awesome) mobile RPG Kingdom Conquest. Available on iOS and Android, the title just hit 2 million downloads, and it’s rumored to be a big moneymaker for Sega. The social game version...
Mobage China And Chinese Facebook Clone Kaixin001 Link Services [Social Games]
DeNA announced that its subsdiary DeNA China has linked the local version of Mobage with Chinese social network Kaixin001: from now on, users of the Facebook clone can access Mobage China with their existing IDs. Mobile Kaixin001 users can now download the Mobage China Android app through the...