By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Nikkei caused a big splash two weeks ago when the business daily broke the news that Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (around 60 million subscribers) is planning to enter the social gaming business. The information available back then was relatively thin, but Docomo...
Tokyo-based Cygames, the maker behind super-successful social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut, just announced that its biggest smash hit is now available on Mobage China. Generally speaking, DeNA is extremely quiet when it comes to the performance of the Mobage brand in China, but it recently came...
Capcom and Tokyo-based social game maker Gloops (which was recently acquired for US$470 million by Nexon) have released “Resident Evil: Clan Master” on Mobage in Japan today. The title, actually dubbed Biohazard: Clan Master (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name), is available on Mobage...
The flood of Japanese social card battle games aimed at the global market continues: Tokyo-based Gloops, which was just acquired by Nexon, released “Warriors Of Odin” on Mobage yesterday. The title is the company’s first social game in English and is currently available on Mobage...
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
What an exit today in Japan’s social gaming industry: Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$6 billion market cap – more than DeNA or GREE) has acquired gloops (corporate site). The size of the deal reaches a staggering Yen 36.5 billion...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry