By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE started accepted pre-registrations for Medal Of Monsters, their next first-party social game, in Japan yesterday. What’s interesting is that GREE is marketing the title as a mix between a so-called “medal game” and “board game”. The goal is to fire medals at...
The Nikkei recently ran an article in which Japan’s biggest business daily compared the operating profits of DeNA and GREE in a handy chart. The newspaper looked back at every quarter since July-September 2010, as both companies reported numbers for the last financial quarter (DeNA, GREE) a...
It’s a mystery to me why GREE, which has offices around the world and has no problem calling itself global, waited to publish its new financial report in English today – six days after releasing the original on November 14. There must be some “political” or PR/IR reasons for...
Square Enix announced “Chocobo No Chocotto Nouen”, a farming simulation that will be available on GREE for feature phones and smartphones by year-end. The biggest bullet point here is that the game uses Chocobo, a large bird that regularly appears in Final Fantasy RPGs (since the 1980s)...
Tokyo-based (and listed) Drecom is once again trying it with an English-language mobile social game: Reign Of Dragons, a “typical” F2P card battle game, is now available on iOS. Drecom isn’t really mentioning it in the iTunes app description, but the company used the GREE platform...
What I learned is that many people in the social gaming industry outside Japan don’t know that GREE and Mobage operator DeNA have actually been running multiple platforms in Japan over the last few years, not just one. Apart from Yahoo Mobage on the PC, these are GREE and Mobage on: Japanese...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry