By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
LINE continues to amaze. Just a few weeks after hitting 40 million downloads, NHN Japan’s social app passed the 50 million mark (on July 26 Japanese time, to be exact). LINE was first released in the Japanese App Store on June 23, 2011. It took 399 days to go from zero to 50 million...
NHN Japan’s super-successful messenger app LINE (45 million downloads in less than a year), which is soon to be turned into a platform, has its first game out. And LINE Birzzle is an instant hit. The puzzle game has actually been released by South Korea-based enfeel a while ago (product...
When NHN Japan announced its plan to turn messenger app LINE into a platform on July 3, the company showed a list of 3rd-party game providers that are ready to offer smartphone titles linked with the app. Apart from NHN itself, these are the developers: Square Enix Konami Taito Alfa System (a video...
NHN Japan caused a big splash yesterday in Japan when the company announced its bold plans to transform LINE into something like a platform for games, music, coupons, books, news, and tons of other content. In addition, the messenger app itself will become more of a Facebook-type of social network...
During their press conference in Tokyo yesterday, NHN Japan went all-out to promote their super-successful messenger app LINE. Part of the plan is to expand the app to a full-fledged platform for games, coupons, music, and other content – complete with API support for third-party developers...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry