By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE announced a pretty interesting partnership with NCsoft yesterday: under the deal, the Korean company will release a new version of Lineage, its popular MMORPG, on GREE for mobile devices. GREE says that the new Lineage game is just the first title that will come out of the partnership...
I summarized my personal prediction on both GREE‘s and DeNA‘s chances of becoming the leading platform providers for mobile social games in the US (and globally) back in March. I was actually pessimistic in September 2011 already. In fact, I was pessimistic since I first started...
It’s the third title in about 4 weeks: GREE is planning to shut down another one of their first-party social games, Dragon Master, on August 24. Earlier this month, GREE announced it will scratch Bakumatsu Kingdom (on July 2) and Sangokushi Kingdom (which will be removed today). GREE...
JOGA, the Japan Online Game Association, has released a summary of a new report on the status quo of Japan’s online gaming industry (as usual, the study is available only in Japanese). Following the study from the Japanese government from a few days ago, the JOGA report also sizes up the...
Business daily The Nikkei reports that GREE‘s operating profit for the April-June 2012 quarter has dropped by 20% q-o-q to around US$255 million. That would still be an increase of over 100% y-o-y (and an incredible number by itself), but the number would mean that GREE saw, for the first...
Japan is probably the only country in the world where even TV stations produce social games (more on that at a later time). But sometimes even this nation’s mighty broadcasters need support, and today GREE announced a pretty interesting deal with Tokyo-based broadcaster Fuji TV. Under the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry