By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA today announced it inked a deal with Hasbro under which the Mobage operator has a three-year exclusive right to create and publish games based on the Transformers franchise. The first Transformers game will hit Mobage on iOS and Android worldwide “later this year” – with the...
Tokyo-based social game maker (and Sega partner) Pokelabo has released “Mystic Monsters” on Tuesday, a social card battle game for iOS and Android. Set on the island of Atlantis, Mystic Monsters is being pitched as a “dark fantasy RPG” that allows players to form guilds to...
Unity and social card battle games: not exactly two terms that have been used very often in one sentence – so far. But Tokyo-based Rozetta has now used the game engine to create Dare Demo Hero (Everybody’s A Hero), a “3D Hero Card Game” for GREE on Android (Google Play). The...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
That doesn’t happen very often: GREE has apparently decided to pull the plug on not one but two of their 1st-party games. The first title is Bakumatsu Kingdom, a “historic” war simulation set in the Edo period. GREE released the game just in November last year and shut it down...
Tokyo-based social game maker gumi enters the investment business. As The Nikkei just reported, the GREE partner has spun off a separate investment company to scout for interesting targets in Asia (GREE is a stakeholder in gumi). “gumi Ventures” is mainly looking for China- or Singapore...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry