By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based mobile game provider Colopl has racked up a staggering 20 million registered users across its portfolio. It took the company roughly 16 months to reach this milestone (the first title was released in September 2011): 10 months to get to the first 10 million users, and another 6 months...
Back in November 2012, mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with three Android titles (Anipang, Tap Tap Blitz, and Puzzle Zoo Zoo). Today operator Kakao Japan, which is 50% owned by Yahoo Japan, expanded said platform to iOS and...
Just a few weeks after Namco Bandai went public saying they have 30 million, Konami is now boasting a total of 35 million registered users across all of their social games. The company reported 10 million users in September 2011 and 20 million in April 2012. Konami revealed that Dragon Collection...
GREE is surely in need of hit titles at the moment. While I don’t think that city-building sim Animal Days will become an evergreen, things are different with a third-party title that has been just unveiled (for GREE only). Users in Japan can now pre-register for “One Piece –...
In September 2010, it wasn’t a social gaming company but Konami that triggered the biggest boom in the history of this new industry (in Japan): social card battle games. The title in question is Dragon Collection, which has over 7 million players in Japan and is still doing well on GREE...
DeNA has partnered up with Nexon to distribute the Korean company’s mobile social games on the Mobage platform, both in Japan and abroad. DeNA’s official statement suggests that this “global business alliance” will be pretty extensive: Nexon and its subsidiaries NEXON Korea...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry