By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GungHo Online Entertainment (3765), the company behind Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, today published its financial report for January to June 2013. Here are the main data points in English for that time frame (the report is available in Japanese only): sales: US$763 million...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has arrived at 17 million users on July 22, maker GungHo (3765) has announced. The number only includes Japanese users, across the App Store, Google Play, and the Kindle. Just like earlier this month, when the game hit 16 million players, the number...
Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons now boasts 16 million users, according to maker GungHo (3765). It took the title 21 days to get from 15 million users to 16 million (the new milestone was reached on June 29), which means that Puzzle & Dragons has been able to add one million...
From time to time, Japanese business daily The Nikkei reveals financials before listed companies do in their quarterly reports or other statements. Today, the newspaper says it has learned that GREE (3632) will likely announce that sales and profit went down in the April-June period, both year-on...
This was bound to happen: mobile strategy hit game Clash Of Clans is Japan’s top free app on the iPhone as well as the iPad at the moment. This is not really surprising, as Japan’s most popular smartphone title Puzzle & Dragons is currently running an in-game promotion for Clash Of...
Japan’s biggest smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, which now boasts 15 million users and generated US$113 million in sales in April this year, isn’t the country’s top grossing app on the iPhone anymore – at least for now. As tweeted out by gumi CEO Hironao Kunimitsu around noon...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry