By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here is a presentation I gave a few days ago in Tokyo on Japan’s social and mobile gaming industry. It’s dubbed “Social Games In Japan 2013: Status Quo, Trends And Internationalization”, and it covers exactly what the title suggests. (I need to add that nobody in the...
NHN Japan today said that games offered on the in-app game platform on LINE have been downloaded a total of 100 million times so far. The company opened the app to game developers in July last year. Most of the titles on “LINE Game” have been doing extremely well – social shooter Dragon...
So far, LINE Game, the in-app gaming platform LINE operator NHN Japan launched last summer has been doing extremely well – most recently with Dragon Flight and Theater Town. And now it seems that NHN Japan is ready to step on the gas: the mega-popular original app has been advertised on...
Mega-popular chat app LINE added 2 more titles to its game platform, namely Dragon Flight and Theater Town. Dragon Flight is a shooting game made by Korean game maker Nextfloor. The company released the title last year in English actually – without using LINE or any other platform. Touch...
Japan’ social networking space has surely changed a lot in the last 2 years. There can be no doubt that chat app LINE (released in the summer of 2011) is the undisputed king in this area in Japan, boasting over 40 million domestic users. At the same time, Japan’s once biggest real...
Puzzle & Dragons, Japan’s top smartphone game, now counts 9 million users: the puzzle/RPG hybrid actually reached that milestone on February 18, just a few days after hitting 8 million downloads late last month. The chart below, compiled by Social Game Info, shows how Puzzle & Dragons grew...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry