By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Ten days after changing the brand name of “PlayStation Suite” to “PlayStation Mobile” during the E3, Sony Computer Entertainment President Andrew House gave an interesting interview to Japanese business daily The Nikkei today. House said that the Android-based mobile game service will be...
DeNA not only released their financial projections for the first quarter of this fiscal year today, the Mobage operator also said it plans to buy back a good portion of its own shares – a maximum of 14 million of them. And DeNA is ready to spend up to a quarter billion US dollars (20 billion...
DeNA today announced its financial results forecast for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 (April to June 2012), and things aren’t looking too bad – in the light of the recent complete (kompu) gacha shock and the regulation that came with it. Because of the kompu gacha shock, DeNA decided...
While GREE appears to have given up on China, DeNA still keeps investing in that market: the Mobage operator just announced a deal with Chinese social networking service Renren. DeNA explains: As a part of the alliance, DeNA China and Renren have opened a dedicated section for Mobage inside the...
One key success factor for the rise of social gaming in Japan are the big investments in TV promotion the two big platform providers, GREE and DeNA, have been making in past years. If you live in Japan and watch a random national TV program for a few minutes, it’s almost impossible not to see...
The social game industry in Japan is rather a “social card battle game industry” at the moment: the number of titles belonging to this genre over here is ridiculously high, and there is no end in sight. In case you need background: my description of Japanese social card battle games can...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry