By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It took them a while, but Capcom has finally rolled out the smartphone version of Biohazard Outbreak Survive on GREE (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name for Resident Evil, Capcom’s super-popular horror action game series). The social game version was first launched on GREE for Japanese...
The number isn’t impressive as Konami’s, but Tecmo Koei is now counting a total of five million registered players for their social games offered on GREE, Mobage, and Yahoo Mobage. The “traditional” video game maker is seeing a 27% profit margin in the online and mobile...
Tokyo-based (and newly listed) social gaming company Klab is going international. KLab Cyscorpions is the name of 100% subsidiary that was launched in Singapore and will handle international smartphone game development for Klab in the future. Tokyo- and Manila-based game maker Cyscorpions (which...
I would have guessed Konami’s J-League Dream Eleven has more users on GREE (where it has been among the top three third-party titles for quite a while now), but according to Gamebiz, the social soccer card game has just hit one million registered players. Competitor EA/gumi’s FIFA World...
The Nikkei is reporting today that GREE added yet another payment method for virtual and avatar-related items in Japan: starting today, players using GREE on smartphones can pay via PayPal. PayPal does have a presence in Japan, but for legal and other reasons, the service hasn’t took off in...
I am hearing that Konami’s super hit social game Dragon Collection has been losing steam in recent weeks, but the company yesterday announced that it now counts five million players for the GREE title (feature phone and smartphone users combined). As other companies do, Konami celebrates the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry