By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced its social baseball card game “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” hit 2.5 million users on January 8. The game was released on August 18, reached 1.5 million registered players on October 19, and 2 million on November 18...
Konami is (again) linking a social game with an arcade title: the company has released a social game called Hunter Chronicle which works in conjunction with Steel Chronicle, an action game released in Japanese arcades last year. Konami explains: Its counterpart, “HUNTER CHRONICLE,” is a...
After inking a deal with SK Telecom in August last year and opening its own office in Seoul in October, GREE has made another move in South Korea: it entered a capital tie-up with Mobicle, a local developer of smartphone games. GREE bought 224,178 shares in the studio (6.8% of its outstanding stock...
GREE and DeNA are still growing, and with them does Japan’s social gaming industry as a whole: JP Morgan thinks so, as does Morgan Stanley, and now Yano updated their projections for the market. (Note: there are more Japanese sources with more stats, but I am not able to cover them all on...
Following Joynt and entag!, Japan is getting another new mobile social gaming platform, and it’s certainly the first of its kind in the world. The platform, which has no distinct brand name, was launched by DMM, a large online video distribution site that’s mostly known as a premier...
How does Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley think about the future of Japan’s social gaming industry? I posted some data from JP Morgan back in June, and here’s some recent projections and interesting industry stats from Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley. First, some estimates on the size of the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry