By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It took them a while, but DeNA in Tokyo announced that Mobage on iOS launched in South Korea on Monday (note: I can only read the press release in Japanese, and there is no English version). DeNA’s entry into Korea was first announced back in November 2011. Just like in the case of...
What’s the size of Japan’s social gaming market? I am constantly monitoring sources from Japan that try to answer this question, and I published some of the results the last time here or as an infographic here (note: I don’t publish all the results I find publicly). Now...
Valkyries In The Twilight – that’s the name of a new first-party game DeNA is currently developing in Japan (and from the looks of it, it’s clearly geared towards the domestic market). The social RPG takes place in Tokyo in 2020. Players have to lead a group of female high-school...
Finally: BNDeNA, the joint venture announced by DeNA and Namco Bandai during the Tokyo Game Show last year (more here), has its first game ready. And it looks pretty nice, at least on pictures (more on that in a minute). “Macross SP Cross Deculture” is, thank god, not the ten millionth...
Unmei No Clan Battle (“The Clan Battle Of Fate”), a mobile social RPG released by Tokyo-based social game maker Pokelabo and Sega 3 weeks ago, is doing really well. After a very promising start (on June 22), the social card battle game, which also offer some real-time game elements, hit 200,000...
Tokyo-based Cygames, a 100% subsidiary of Japanese web powerhouse Cyberagent, is on a roll. The company behind social game mega-hit Rage Of Bahamut announced it has registered its 10 millionth user on July 14. Cygames, which is barely a year old (established in May 2011), currently employs 262...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry