By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Earlier this month, DeNA and CyberAgent announced the launch of an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). The joint venture, which is 51% owned by CyberAgent and 49% by...
Mobage is getting another port of a hit console game: this time DeNA announced that Capcom will release BASARA Mobile, a social game version of its popular game series Sengoku Basara, on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. The game will go live in June, but DeNA says users can already pre-register...
Big news from DeNA today: just a few minutes ago, DeNA and Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (58 million customers) announced a partnership that’s nothing short of spectacular. Starting next month, Mobage will be directly linked to Docomo’s i-mode mobile web portal for feature...
DeNA is gearing for up for the launch of an entirely new Mobage (that’s due out in the next few weeks). The company launched the first official Mobage Twitter account earlier today, which you can start following here. The account is Japanese only, but as Mobage will be positioned as a global...
The internationally popular anime and manga series Crayon Shin-chan is getting a social game treatment, courtesy of Mobage. It’s the first time Shin-chan, the hero of the series, appears in a social game. The way the game, dubbed Koi Suru 47, works is as outrageous as the anime: Shin-chan...
Tokyo-based game maker GungHo, the company that entered a joint venture with RockYou and SoftBank in July 2009 in Japan, just released Homerun Hero, a cute social baseball game on Mobage (which has nothing to do with said JV). Needless to say, the game allows users to play against other Mobage...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry