By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I regularly get asked how big Japan’s market for social games (deployed on GREE, Mobage, Mixi etc.) actually is. The short answer is it depends on who you ask – and you should be careful which numbers to rely on. Let’s just look at 3 sources: 1) Japanese government In July last...
CyberAgent may not have its own mobile social gaming platform, but it has a handful of subsidiaries providing titles to DeNA’s Mobage, GREE or Mixi. Now CyberAgent has announced that one of these subsidiaries, Cyber-X, has released a new title on Mobage. “Dream Academia”, a social...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), has been off to a good start after the launch in the fall of 2010: in January 2011, DeNA reported that Yahoo Mobage crossed the 2 million mark after 104 days. If data coming from Nielsen Japan is...
DeNA added two top social games from Mobage-town to Mobage on Android, beefing up its “Mobage.town For Smartphone” platform. Both games were developed by DeNA itself in Japan and are only available in Japanese. Sengoku Royal is a war themed role-playing that takes place in the middle...
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, is getting more and more games. One candidate for a future hit title isn’t a social game but a 3D virtual world called Pico Pico Town. Made by DeNA itself, Pico Pico Town went live today in beta. There are a total of 5...
In December 2010, DeNA announced a spectacular deal with Samsung under which the handset maker will pre-install DeNA’s mobile social gaming platform Mobage on its Android phones. Today, Japanese news site Keitai Watch has pictures that show how Mobage will be presented to end users of Samsung...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry