By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It’s pretty difficult (I would even say next to impossible) to be able to track what’s going on in Japan’s social and mobile gaming industry without being based here and knowing the language. The task gets even more difficult when you take into account there is hardly any source...
“Bushimo” is the name of a new social gaming platform Tokyo-based Bushiroad announced at Tokyo Game Show 2012. The new service will be exclusively available on smartphones starting sometime this winter, going (to some degree) against the likes of Mobage, GREE, or LINE. Bushiroad says...
I said it before, and I say it again: DeNA needs many, many more games to call itself a “platform” outside Japan. Just over 50 titles on Mobage in English, for example, are not enough to be able to use that term in my view – especially since Mobage Global was launched 15 months...
The number of 3D social games in Japan is slowly increasing, and Dark Menace from Tokyo-based Grasshopper Universe (not to be confused with Grasshopper Manufacture) is the latest such title. It just went live on Mobage for smartphones in Japan (Android, iOS). In a nutshell, Dark Menace is a...
Hit video game series “Professor Layton” is getting a new social version: DeNA today announced “Professor Layton and Seven Thieves of the Century”, a social game that Mobage users in Japan can pre-register for starting today (a launch date isn’t fixed yet). This is the second...
There is already a social gaming platform embedded in Japan’s real-identity social network Mixi (on both the PC and mobile versions), but that’s apparently no reason not to open a second one. Dubbed mixi Park, the new social gaming platform was launched today by Mixi itself and Konami...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry