By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Puzzle & Dragons, developed by Tokyo-based GungHo, is holding its No. 1 position among the top grossing apps in the Japanese App Store. After a short drop a few days back, the social game is back on the spot it has now been occupying for the last 8 weeks. Puzzle & Dragons is a social game...
It’s a mini trend: social games on smartphones that are not embedded in Mobage or GREE – but do pretty well anyway. Following Puzzle & Dragons from GungHo, it’s Square Enix newest title that sees success with this strategy. “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a great...
About two to three years ago, many people in the Japanese social gaming industry were in fear that the rapid adoption of smartphones in the local mobile market would break the entire business model of social games offered on feature phones. Fast forward to 2012, and the situation isn’t as bad...
Tokyo-based game maker GungHo, the company that entered a joint venture with RockYou and SoftBank in July 2009 in Japan, just released Homerun Hero, a cute social baseball game on Mobage (which has nothing to do with said JV). Needless to say, the game allows users to play against other Mobage...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry