By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Following the deal with Hasbro to bring Transformers to Mobage, DeNA has now unveiled details about its previously announced Marvel game. In a nutshell, Marvel: War of Heroes will be exclusively available on Mobage in the form of a social card battle game. DeNA and Marvel Entertainment promise...
Konami released their financial report for Q1 of fiscal 2013 (April to June 2012), and things aren’t looking too good for the company. Here’s the basic financial overview: Just like in Q1 of last fiscal, Konami’s social game segment made more money than its consumer games segment:...
On the road to (possibly) becoming a global mobile social gaming platform, Mobage operator DeNA has always been taking the Chinese market much more seriously than GREE. To recap, DeNA has so far signed deals with the following companies in China (in chronological order): AliBaba Kaixin001 Netdragon...
Capcom released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 (April to June 2012) today, and things are looking pretty good. All key numbers increased sharply, i.e. the operating profit (up 240% to 2.6 billion yen/US$33.3 billion) or net income, which is about four times higher at now US$12.6 million...
Mobage is seeing quite a few titles marketed as so-called “next-generation” social games lately: following social shooting game Macross SP Deculture and social RPG Valkyries In The Twilight, a new title called “Guilty Dragon” is supposed to help bring social games in Japan...
JOGA, the Japan Online Game Association, has released a summary of a new report on the status quo of Japan’s online gaming industry (as usual, the study is available only in Japanese). Following the study from the Japanese government from a few days ago, the JOGA report also sizes up the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry