By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA has announced it has inked a deal with professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants, Nippon TV and others to bring a “social baseball game” to Mobage next month. The game, dubbed Dramatic Kyojingun (Dramatic Giants), lets Mobage users choose members of the current (and former) Yomiuri...
Major Japanese video game maker Square Enix announced (and already released) Traveling Fairy today, a new fantasy adventure for Mobage for feature phones. As you would expect from Square Enix, the social game looks pretty slick. Traveling Fairy contains location-based elements and lets the player...
DeNA and CyberAgent today announced they will jointly launch 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). It’s one of the biggest alliances in Japan’s...
If you have ever wondered how DeNA can generate over $1 billion in sales with a Japan- and mobile-only social gaming platform, here’s a pointer: Tokyo-based social game maker GMS announced that “Daisoudatsu Legend Card” just hit 100,000 users on DeNA’s Mobage gaming platform...
DeNA has announced something unusual yesterday: the social games company plans to hire between 50 to 100 employees coming from areas in Japan that were hit by the big earthquake from March 11. DeNA’s motivation is to do their part in supporting the victims of the disaster, following their 100...
A quite good-looking RPG was added to mobile social gaming platform Mobage today, “S.U.N Episode Mobile”, a special version of Soul of the Ultimate Nation (an online fantasy MMORPG for Windows PCs). Made by Korean gaming company Webzen, the PC game was first launched in various Asian...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry