By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), passed the 4 million user mark on May 17. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million, 61 days more to reach 3 million users, and...
Tokyo-based Genki has announced “Gang Warz” for Mobage for Smartphone, a social game for Android that looks much like a shameless clone of Grand Theft Auto. In the game, players take on the role of a street gang member whose gang battles it out with other Mobage players and who has to...
Tokyo-based gaming company Spicysoft has announced it has landed a hit with Charisocial, a social game it has launched on Mobage 3 months ago: the company says that it has racked up 500,000 users since then. What’s special about this number is that according to Spicysoft, promotional efforts...
DeNA not only launched the native Mobage app for Android today (see here), the company also announced (press release in Japanese) it will strengthen game engine support for 3rd party developers that want to release social games on Mobage for smartphones. DeNA says they will offer the Mobage SDK...
DeNA finally did it: the company officially launched (press release in Japanese) the Mobage Android App (“Mobage for Smartphone”) today, albeit in Japan only for the time being. If you’re viewing this on an Android phone, visit this link to get the app. (In December, DeNA already...
DeNA has added a new title on Mobage to its main proprietary sub-brand for social games, the “Royal” series (the most popular title being Kaitou Royal), today. Story-wise, “Teikoku Royal”, which is designed as a social adventure game, takes place somewhere in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry