Last year in September, during the Tokyo Game Show 2012, GREE (3632) took the wraps off “Project Fantasm:A”, a new first-party title with some pretty high-profile names behind it. GREE didn’t talk much about their “AAA” social game since but fast forward to today, and it’s...
Report: DeNA Saw Sales In The US Between April-June Grow To $90 Million, Plans To Introduce Mobile News And Video In The US
The Nikkei has just reported online that things are starting to look better overseas for DeNA (2432): according to the Japanese business daily, the Mobage operator has seen sales in the US grow 600% year-on-year to US$90 million in the April-June quarter. Note: this number hasn’t been...
Report: GREE’s April-June Sales And Profit Down By 10% And 70%, Respectively
From time to time, Japanese business daily The Nikkei reveals financials before listed companies do in their quarterly reports or other statements. Today, the newspaper says it has learned that GREE (3632) will likely announce that sales and profit went down in the April-June period, both year-on...
Dragon Eclipse: DeNA And gloops Show Their First Co-Developed Social Game
Mobage operator DeNA (2432) and Tokyo-based mobile game maker gloops (aquired by Nexon (3659) last October) have announced their first co-developed title. The RPG, which is dubbed Dragon Eclipse and looks very promising, is the first game to come out of the DeNA-gloops partnership that was...
Osaka Stock Exchange Suspends Trade In Shares Of Mobile Game Maker Index
This is certainly not good news not only for the company affected but for Japan’s mobile game industry as a whole: the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) suspended trading of shares in Index Corp., a Tokyo-based maker of mobile games, this morning Japanese time. Details are relatively scarce at...
“Talk Game”: DeNA Starts Integrating Casino Games Into Its Chat App comm
It has become very, very silent about comm, the chat app DeNA started rolling out in October last year. According to the last official word from the Mobage operator, a few months ago, the app racked up a total of 5 million users. That number is sure higher now (comm has been advertised on TV in...