By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Tokyo Game Show 2011 that I attended yesterday was was my 5th or 6th event, and this time, social games were as present as never before. That is, if you add GREE‘s gigantic booth (they occupied 1,080sqm or 10% of the entire floor space) to the handful (much smaller) startups that were...
DeNA has been internationalizing like there’s no tomorrow over the past months, which is probably why the company decided to completely relaunch the international website visitors to their Japanese corporate homepage are directed to (after clicking the “English” button on the top...
And yet another games studio gets snatched up by DeNA: today, DeNA announced it plans to acquire Punch Entertainment, a Hanoi-based game studio that’s owned by a Palo-Alto based company of the same name (website). Until now, the American HQ was responsible for design, art, engineering and QA...
I had the opportunity to speak at the so-called Tofu Project x Open Network Lab Day earlier this week in Tokyo. Approximately 150 people came to the event, which was sponsored by seed accelerator Open Network Lab and JP Morgan Japan. If you missed the event, here is a video of me speaking about...
If you still needed proof that Kaito Royale, the No. 1 title on Mobage, is Japan’s biggest social game (over 10 million registered users), here’s another hint: as probably the first social game in the world, Kaito Royale will be turned into a TV series. As in the game, there will be...
It’s not really a social game but a good title to have for DeNA in its portfolio: the company today announced the launch of “Space Invaders Infinity Gene LITE” for Mobage. The Mobage version of the legendary shooting game series (Space Invaders looks back at a 33 year-old history)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry