By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Back in April this, Capcom announced “Biohazard Outbreak Survive”, the first social game of the hit adventure/horror series Biohazard (Resident Evil outside Japan), for GREE on Japanese feature phones. The game was released in June, and now Capcom says it has 1 million registered users...
Truth be told, I don’t know what GREE International is thinking here, but it appears GREE‘s US-based subsidiary has bought advertising space on billboards on Highway 101 in San Francisco. It’s just one for the time being, but the company already announced more billboards via...
I could write a book or two about the differences between social gaming in Japan and elsewhere, but one easy and (hopefully) interesting way to take a high-level look at things is the difference in genres (with the biggest difference being that social gaming in Japan is mainly mobile). Generally...
The social gaming boom in Japan has helped Tokyo-based KLab to go IPO at the the “Mothers” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange yesterday (3656). The company received the listing approval on August 23. On the first day of trading, Klab shares shot up from 1,700 yen up to 4,070 yen. On the second...
The arcade game business is way past its prime in Japan, too, but some there are still quite a few arcades and some big name makers keep making machines for them. One of these makers is Konami: the company is planning to launch “BASEBALL HEROES 2011 SHINE STAR”, a so-called...
GREE today announced it has inked a deal with Adobe to bring the new Adobe AIR 3 plugin to social game providers this fall. GREE partners can then “embed the functions provided by the GREE SDK into AIR-based applications”. Through the plugin, developers can also create multi-platform...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry