By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA today announced it is partnering up with CyberAgent and venture capital firm Japan Asia Investment (China) to invest $12 million in social gaming companies in China and Japan. Under the deal, DeNA will invest $6 million each in two venture capital funds: one will be run by CyberAgent Ventures...
How are Mixi, Facebook Japan, GREE and DeNA (Mobage-town) doing at the moment? Here’s an interesting study released by MMD Research from Tokyo on Japan’s social games market. This graph shows how social networks are used in Japan (green: brand awareness, purple: actual users) This graph...
The biggest hit title on DeNA’s social gaming platform Mobage-town (Mobage) is Kaitou Royal. It’s rumored that this one game accounts for a big chunk of DeNA’s revenue and profits. Now TechCrunch Japan editor Ryuichi Nishida is reporting on Twitter that Takeshi Otsuka, the master...
DeNA brings Mobagetown (aka Mobage) to international users by way of iPhone. The company rolled out Mobage’s iPhone version, dubbed MiniNation, yesterday: Japan has two listed mobile gaming companies with a multi-billion US-dollar market capitalization, GREE ($2.7 billion) and DeNA ($4.2...
Japanese mobile games giant DeNA brings its mega-popular platform Mobage-town (Mobage) to cell phones outside Japan: One of the most recent social mobile networks catching our attention, MobaMingle, comes from Japan. MobaMingle is the internationalized version of Mobage-town, one of Japan’s biggest...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry