By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Capcom and Tokyo-based social game maker Gloops (which was recently acquired for US$470 million by Nexon) have released “Resident Evil: Clan Master” on Mobage in Japan today. The title, actually dubbed Biohazard: Clan Master (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name), is available on Mobage...
“GREE Loves Indies” – that’s the name of a new program GREE International has just set up. Under the initiative, the company is reaching out to US-based developers (Japan or other countries are out) to develop games for its global platform. GREE plans to collect applications...
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
What an exit today in Japan’s social gaming industry: Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$6 billion market cap – more than DeNA or GREE) has acquired gloops (corporate site). The size of the deal reaches a staggering Yen 36.5 billion...
If you need yet another piece of evidence that the gaming industry is in the midst of a mobile revolution, take a look at the charts below. This first one, created by Rick Martin from tech blog Tech In Asia, shows the distribution of mobile versus console games during the Tokyo Game Show 2012...
Konami used the Tokyo Game Show 2012 (which ended today) to announce an important milestone: the company says the number of registered users playing their social games has hit 25 million. In Japan, Konami is active across a number of platforms, including Mobage and GREE. It recently rolled out Mixi...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry