By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yet another big console title has landed on a mobile social gaming platform: this time, it’s Bust A Move (aka “Puzzle Bobble”), a puzzle game from Taito (and one of my favorite games ever). The title (announced today and dubbed “New Puzzle Bobble Lite for GREE”) is a...
One big trend in Japan’s social gaming industry is that local video game makers, from smaller developers to listed companies, are starting to produce more and more social games for GREE, DeNA, and Mixi. Japanese business daily The Nikkei recently investigated how successful three major video...
With over 45 million units sold on various gaming platforms, Resident Evil (Biohazard) is one of the biggest video game franchises in history. In April, maker Capcom announced Biohazard Outbreak Survive, the first social version of the adventure/horror title, for GREE on Japanese feature phones...
GREE has announced its line-up of Unity-powered iOS and Android social games for this summer (in Japan). In March this year, GREE partnered up with the 3D games tool development maker to make the Unity plug-in part of the GREE SDK. Personally, I am a big fan of what Unity is doing (Gamasutra just...
I will be in the US (namely San Francisco and LA) for a few days next month to visit various companies and do other things. By coincidence, the JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization) will be holding an interesting event during that time, on July 29, in San Francisco: Social Networks and Casual...
I tried to answer the question “How Big Is Japan’s Social Gaming Market” back in February by aggregating numbers from three different sources. And now Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities in Tokyo has issued a new report with their own findings regarding future growth of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry