By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based Colopl (3668) may be a nobody outside Japan, but over here, the company has evolved into a US$2.4 billion mobile gaming powerhouse after going IPO in December 2012. US$2.4 billion in market cap is a not only a very handsome number for an almost entirely domestic company: it also means...
Mobage operator DeNA (2432) took the wraps off a new first-party game yesterday, a social 3D RPG called “Magic & Cannon”. The game will become available in the form of a smartphone app for the Japanese Mobage platform on iOS and Android “soon” (users can pre-register...
If you can’t beat them, join them: that’s what GREE (3632) probably thought when it allowed its subsidiary in Seoul, GREE Korea, to use a competing platform for distribution of in-house content – a few months after the company’s own platform plans outside Japan were buried...
If this becomes reality, this is surely one of the biggest developments in Japan’s mobile gaming scene in recent months. The country’s biggest business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that a total of 15 Japanese mobile game makers are preparing to join forces in marketing...
Japan’s Mobile Content Forum (MCF) has issued a new report that includes a number of interesting statistics on this country’s mobile industry. According to the MCF, Japan’s market for mobile gaming reached roughly US$5.1 billion in 2012. I translated the key information of the...
“GxYz”, the joint venture GREE (3632) and Yahoo Japan established back in February this year, has released its first game. “Driland – Devil King Army vs. Men Of Valor” (a rough translation of the title) is a spin off of social card battler Driland (aka Doliland), GREE’s...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry