By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rage Of Bahamut continues to do well outside Japan: the social card battle game, developed by Tokyo-based Cyberagent company Cygames, hit 2 million downloads outside this country on July 10. The title was released on Mobage for Android by DeNA/ngmoco in late February this year. Rage Of Bahamut hit...
DeNA today announced it inked a deal with Hasbro under which the Mobage operator has a three-year exclusive right to create and publish games based on the Transformers franchise. The first Transformers game will hit Mobage on iOS and Android worldwide “later this year” – with the...
Good news coming from the world’s biggest mobile market are sparse so far (to say the least), but DeNA isn’t letting go of China. Far from it. Japan’s largest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (about 60 million subscribers) announced it has established a joint venture with China’s...
Tokyo-based social game maker (and Sega partner) Pokelabo has released “Mystic Monsters” on Tuesday, a social card battle game for iOS and Android. Set on the island of Atlantis, Mystic Monsters is being pitched as a “dark fantasy RPG” that allows players to form guilds to...
Big news from DeNA today, and I’ll get right to it: the company just officially announced in Japan that Mobage now connects with Facebook. This is huge. The press release is relatively curt (and available in Japanese only), as this isn’t exactly great news for DeNA (I’ll come to...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry