By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE today announced it filed a lawsuit against its rival DeNA, seeking damages of at least US$13 million. Lawsuits (both corporate and private) are rare in Japan, but GREE is accusing DeNA of still putting pressure on third-party game developers and other partners to not offer games on GREE but...
There are industry reports from a number of Japan-based investment banks available out there, and everyone sees the market size of the domestic social gaming market differently. For analysts, investors, and everyone else interested in such data, one alternative is the analysis from Enterbrain, a...
Big win for GREE today: EA Sports has brought social game FIFA World Class Soccer to GREE on Japanese feature phones and smartphones (pre-registration actually started a while ago). FIFA World Class Soccer has been co-developed with Tokyo-based gumi, one of the biggest third-party social game...
While DeNA is currently offering around 40 first-party games on Mobage, GREE has developed just around ten for its platform. For Japanese feature phones, GREE has just opened pre-registration for Bakumatsu Kingdom, a “historic” social game. Bakumatsu are the final years of the Edo...
Big win for GREE today: Capcom and GREE jointly announced a social game from the super-popular fantasy game series Monster Hunter, which has sold over 19 million units so far. “Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima” will be released by the end of this year, simultaneously for GREE on...
I have the feeling GREE plans to cover the entire world with offices: the company just announced it will open an office in Dubai. The presence in the Arab Emirates will stand in line with GREE offices in Beijing, California, Seoul, Singapore, London, Amsterdam and Sao Paolo. I don’t get it...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry