By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Nikkei just reported in its online edition that GREE will probably hit US$520 million in sales last quarter (three months through December 31). As if this wasn’t impressive enough, the paper says GREE is expecting operating profit to balloon to US$260 million. If the report turns out to...
GREE, DeNA‘s Mobage, Yahoo Mobage, Mixi, Hangame: there’s certainly no shortage of social game platform providers in Japan, and the same is true for social game content providers (I am estimating there are around 500 of these active in this country). But who is actually playing these...
As predicted, Capcom’s “Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima”, a social game based on the company’s action RPG series Monster Hunter, continues to do well on GREE. The title was announced last month, launched on GREE on December 19, quickly shot up to No. 4 on the ranking of the most...
Comcept, the company founded by famous video game creator Keiji Inafune, has released its first social game on GREE for Android today. The title, dubbed “Dr. Momo’s Island”, was co-developed with Index. The much anticipated game has a weird story: players take on the role of Dr...
“Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima”, a social game from Capcom’s super-popular fantasy game series Monster Hunter (19 million units sold so far), has been released on December 19 (it has been announced last month). The title is available on GREE for feature phones and smartphones and has...
Klab has ported its soccer-themed social game Captain Tsubasa to GREE, a few weeks after the title crossed the 1.5 million user mark on Mobage. The company has probably paid quite a few yen to acquire the license for the famous soccer anime and manga from the 1980s, which means the port isn’t...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry