By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for DeNA today: partner Namco Bandai today announced [PDF] that it will bring two of its hit video game series to Mobage. The first game is the far more important one: “Tales Of Kizna” is the first social game in the 16-year old “Tales” series of RPGS. Kizna is a...
I have been preaching for months that Japan’s social gaming giants DeNA and GREE will have a hard time replicating their enormous success outside Japan, and now JP Morgan in Tokyo has released a report pointing out the trouble that DeNA in particular is seeing currently. To be more specific...
DeNA just announced that MapleStory, the super hit MMORPG from Korean publisher Nexon, is now available on Mobage in the form of a mobile social game. The Mobage version, dubbed MapleStory: Bokura No Boken (“Our Adventures”), is playable on Mobage for Japanese feature phones only at this point...
DeNA just announced the acquisition of yet another startup, social games maker Atakama Labs from Santiago, Chile. It’s the first time for DeNA to expand to South America, but Atakama also has an office in San Francisco (where ngmoco is based, too). Financial terms of the deal weren’t...
With tens of thousands of games to choose from, “discoverability” is a big problem for gaming companies offering on Facebook, in the App Store or on the Android Market. But how about Japan, on DeNA‘s Mobage or GREE? Mobage and GREE offer “only” over 1,000 games each...
DeNA today announced the launch of two native iOS apps of their own hit social games Kaito Royale and Nouen Hokkorina (a farming simulation) for Mobage. Both apps are available in Japanese only (Mobage for iOS isn’t available in English yet). App Store downloads: Kaito Royale for Mobage Nouen...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry