By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
That was quick: Openfeint, which was acquired by GREE in April this year, already has a new CEO. Jason Citron, the founder of the company, is out, and will be replaced by GREE CFO and CEO Of GREE International, Naoki Aoyagi. This is certainly not good news for GREE, especially with regard to their...
The Tokyo Game Show 2011 that I attended yesterday was was my 5th or 6th event, and this time, social games were as present as never before. That is, if you add GREE‘s gigantic booth (they occupied 1,080sqm or 10% of the entire floor space) to the handful (much smaller) startups that were...
I had the opportunity to speak at the so-called Tofu Project x Open Network Lab Day earlier this week in Tokyo. Approximately 150 people came to the event, which was sponsored by seed accelerator Open Network Lab and JP Morgan Japan. If you missed the event, here is a video of me speaking about...
Konami has announced the user base of their social games across GREE and DeNA‘s Mobage has passed the 10 million mark at the end of last month. Their biggest hit is Dragon Collection, a social collectible card game, that is close to occupying the No. 1 spot on GREE for an entire year straight...
Konami currently occupies the first three spots in the ranking of the most popular social games on GREE: the most popular title is Dragon Collection, No. 2 is Professional Baseball Dream Nine, and No. 3 is soccer card game “J-League Dream Eleven”. And now Konami has announced it filed a lawsuit...
Konami’s social game super hit, Dragon Collection, which is close to being the No. 1 game on GREE for a year straight, has passed the four million user mark. Gamebiz reports that the four millionth player registered for the social fantasy card game/RPG on Monday (September 5). To commemorate...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry