Major Tokyo-based social game provider (and DeNA partner) gloops has announced the establishment of two offices outside Japan. The company is currently operating some very successful mobile social games on Mobage in Japan. gloops International is located in San Francisco, while the Vietnam office...
Final Fantasy Brigade To Land On Mobage This Month [Social Games]
When DeNA announced that Square Enix is planning a social game based on Final Fantasy for Mobage backĀ in October, not too many details were made public. The plan is now to release the game, titled Final Fantasy Brigade, as a beta version in the middle of this month and then push out a full release...
DeNA Finalizes Deal With Korea’s Daum [Social Games]
After announcing the deal last month, DeNA and major Korean online portal Daum signed a partnership agreement to bring Mobage to users in South Korea via Daum’s portal and mobile apps. DeNA Seoul, a subsidiary DeNA proper set up in June this year, is supposed to manage Mobage’s entry...
DeNA Is Finally Buying That Professional Baseball Team [Social Games]
DeNA has been fighting, but the company finally announced today that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) approved the planned acquisition of a 66.92% stake in Yokohama BayStars, a professional baseball team. The green light from the organization was expected to come a few weeks ago...
DeNA Is Jumping On The Social Card Game Bandwagon [Social Games]
DeNA blames part of the reason why their newest financial numbers were relatively weak on the fact that their recent first-party games didn’t do as well as expected (which is especially true for Ninja Royale). To be more concrete, DeNA missed out on card games, a genre that’s now...
DeNA Announces Strategic Partnership With gloops [Social Games]
Every social gaming platform needs strong third-party developers, and the strongest of them all (on Mobage) is gloops – reason enough for DeNA to announce a strategic partnership with the Tokyo-based company today. Under the deal, DeNA and gloops will “mutually share social games...