By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
What’s the size of Japan’s social gaming market? I am constantly monitoring sources from Japan that try to answer this question, and I published some of the results the last time here or as an infographic here (note: I don’t publish all the results I find publicly). Now...
Tokyo-based social game maker CyberX has teamed up with Take-Two to create NBA 2K All Stars, a social basketball card game using real players, for GREE. The license makes it possible to feature a total of 500 real basketball players from all 30 NBA teams. CyberX and Take-Two decided to put Michael...
Unmei No Clan Battle (“The Clan Battle Of Fate”), a mobile social RPG released by Tokyo-based social game maker Pokelabo and Sega 3 weeks ago, is doing really well. After a very promising start (on June 22), the social card battle game, which also offer some real-time game elements, hit 200,000...
Quite a number of the bigger social game makers in Japan currently try to differentiate themselves by creating new titles based on valuable IP. Case in point: GREE, which today announced it has scored the rights to turn Bleach into a mobile social game in its network. Bleach is an action manga and...
Last month, GREE announced it plans to make a big showing for the first time in Europe, namely at the at the gamescom 2012 exhibition in Cologne, Germany. And now GREE revealed it will be present with a number of first-party and third-party games at the consumer hall 9.1, booth A021/B020. The...
GREE today announced plans to establish GREE Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary, in Vancouver. The company cites two reasons for the location: the vicinity to a number of other game makers (and personnel) and the fact that both Vancouver and Silicon Valley are in the same time zone. GREE...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry