By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is now boasting over 20 million registered users in the country, maker GungHo Online Entertainment (3765) announced today. While this is a pretty impressive milestone, this chart from news site Social Game Info shows that growth is slowing...
At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, mobile game maker GungHo (3765) finally revealed a few more details about its follow-up to Puzzle & Dragons, Japan’s most popular smartphone title. And it’s not Puzzle & Dragons 2 but a completely new title called “Divine Gate”...
Tokyo-based Colopl (3668) may be a nobody outside Japan, but over here, the company has evolved into a US$2.4 billion mobile gaming powerhouse after going IPO in December 2012. US$2.4 billion in market cap is a not only a very handsome number for an almost entirely domestic company: it also means...
Earlier this month, Kabam made some heads turn in Japan when the American company announced an international marketing deal with Tokyo-based mobile game maker KLab. That agreement was entered a few months after Kabam set up a US$50 million fund to help Japanese mobile game companies expand globally...
EA Japan is currently developing Tetris Monsters, a puzzle/RPG hybrid that’s scheduled to hit iOS this summer (the game hasn’t been announced for other markets – or Android – yet). Details are scarce at the moment, but Tetris Monsters will come with the official Tetris...
Japan’s most popular smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has been gaining one million registered users domestically every three weeks or so 15 times in a row to currently boast 17 million. Last month, maker GungHo (3765) said the title has over one million players in South Korea. But so far, the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry