By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of money in Japan’s social gaming market to be made: GREE and Mobage operator DeNA alone are projected to hit up to US$2 billion each in sales this fiscal year (see here and here). Both companies make around 90% of their money with virtual item...
Lord Of Vermillion, a collectible card game franchise launched by Square Enix in Japanese arcades in 2008, is going social. Square Enix is currently seeing good sales with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social game that’s not embedded in a social network. Like Diffusion, Lord Of Vermillion is...
Tokyo-based gloops, the biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, announced that its social card battle game Magigate now has one million users on Mobage. The title was launched back in February and racked up 100,000 users in the first 7 hours. DeNA’s strategic partner gloops needed a total of...
14-year old CyberAgent is close to a radical transformation of one its main pillars of business, the Ameba platform. Over the years, Ameba has transformed itself from a pure blogging platform on PCs and feature phones to a cross-service platform (using a single log-in approach) and successfully...
Nice win for DeNA: Rage Of Bahamut, a social card battle game made by Tokyo-based Cygames (a CyberAgent subsidiary), is the top-grossing app on Google Play. The main bullet point here is that the Android app is part of the Mobage network since February this year. Industry blog Inside Mobile Apps...
With regulation possibly around the corner, that council six top Japanese social game makers and platforms formed last month has announced a first set of measures to react to the mounting criticism of the industry in Japanese media. The council consists of members...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry