By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Klab has ported its soccer-themed social game Captain Tsubasa to GREE, a few weeks after the title crossed the 1.5 million user mark on Mobage. The company has probably paid quite a few yen to acquire the license for the famous soccer anime and manga from the 1980s, which means the port isn’t...
It’s not a big surprise: MySpace Japan will close its office early next year, according to Japanese news site IT Media. According to the report, MySpace in the US will manage the Japanese version starting February 1, 2012. MySpace Japan was established as early as November 2006, but the...
Facebook Japan now boasts over 6 million registered users, if you believe the newest data coming from social media analytics service Socialbakers. To be more concrete, Facebook counts 6,267,540 registered Japanese members – again, according to Socialbakers. In other words, Facebook added...
Tokyo-based (and newly listed) social gaming company Klab is going international. KLab Cyscorpions is the name of 100% subsidiary that was launched in Singapore and will handle international smartphone game development for Klab in the future. Tokyo- and Manila-based game maker Cyscorpions (which...
I am giving presentations on Japan’s social gaming industry from time to time, anything from granular analyses of very specific topics to 101-style presentations. A few weeks ago, I prepared some slides on social games in Japan in general to shed light on a industry that’s very hard for...
RockYou Asia won’t be called Rockyou Asia anymore: according to a report on Japanese news site Social Game Info, the US company renamed its Tokyo subsidiary to “Chocobot Games” (or “Choco Bot Games”, there is no English transcript yet). I have no idea why RockYou Asia...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry