By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
When DeNA announced that Square Enix is planning a social game based on Final Fantasy for Mobage back in October, not too many details were made public. The plan is now to release the game, titled Final Fantasy Brigade, as a beta version in the middle of this month and then push out a full release...
After announcing the deal last month, DeNA and major Korean online portal Daum signed a partnership agreement to bring Mobage to users in South Korea via Daum’s portal and mobile apps. DeNA Seoul, a subsidiary DeNA proper set up in June this year, is supposed to manage Mobage’s entry...
DeNA has been fighting, but the company finally announced today that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) approved the planned acquisition of a 66.92% stake in Yokohama BayStars, a professional baseball team. The green light from the organization was expected to come a few weeks ago...
Konami has released a social horse racing game on Mobage that has a very interesting twist: some races taking place in the game are timed with races taking place in the real world. The company bought an official license for “Dream Stallion” from the JRA (Japan Racing Association) to be...
DeNA blames part of the reason why their newest financial numbers were relatively weak on the fact that their recent first-party games didn’t do as well as expected (which is especially true for Ninja Royale). To be more concrete, DeNA missed out on card games, a genre that’s now...
Every social gaming platform needs strong third-party developers, and the strongest of them all (on Mobage) is gloops – reason enough for DeNA to announce a strategic partnership with the Tokyo-based company today. Under the deal, DeNA and gloops will “mutually share social games...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry