By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Just four weeks ago, GREE caused quite a splash with the announcement of a whole new line of business: merchandising based on popular characters from their first-party games. And now the company not only confirmed the final name of the subsidiary it spun off for this business (“GREE...
It’s pretty difficult (I would even say next to impossible) to be able to track what’s going on in Japan’s social and mobile gaming industry without being based here and knowing the language. The task gets even more difficult when you take into account there is hardly any source...
“Bushimo” is the name of a new social gaming platform Tokyo-based Bushiroad announced at Tokyo Game Show 2012. The new service will be exclusively available on smartphones starting sometime this winter, going (to some degree) against the likes of Mobage, GREE, or LINE. Bushiroad says...
GREE showcased a total of 34 titles at the Tokyo Game Show today – a pretty solid line-up with the only problem being that 33 of them were either available for a long time already (Doliland, Gang Domination, or Dragon Collection, to name just a few) or unveiled earlier (like Metal Gear Solid...
I had the chance to try out Metal Gear Solid Social Ops at the Tokyo Game Show today, the first social game that’s based on Konami’s hit franchise “Metal Gear”. Metal Gear Solid Social Ops was announced three weeks ago for GREE‘s global platform (release: in fall or...
Square Enix took a long time to finish for their latest social RPG, but at long last, Emperors Saga is now live on GREE for smartphones and feature phones. The game was announced exactly a year ago (even pre-registration started), but reportedly Square Enix wasn’t happy with the quality of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry