By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Japan (4689), the country’s biggest online company, is entering the smartphone game publishing business. The news started making the rounds over here after this recruitment page went online, where the company is looking for game producers, designers, planners, and a whole range of other...
Japanese business daily The Nikkei recently published a story on the PS4 in which it showed a chart that compares the sales of social games with those of console games (hard- and software) in Japan since 2007/2008. I found it interesting enough to post it below. It visualizes the unbelievable...
I think that this week is the busiest in Japan’s social gaming industry since May this year (when the kompu gacha shock hit), there is just so much going on. Today’s big news: GREE announced a comprehensive business partnership with Yahoo Japan, the country’s (by far) biggest web...
Last year, I identified a total of 7 “Japan-only” social game genres, one of which are social hostess club simulations (or host club simulations). This is how Wikipedia explains these establishments: Hostess clubs are a common feature in the night-time entertainment industry...
Tokyo-based Klab played a major role in the “kompu gacha” shock story that rocked the Japanese social game industry in the last week. The company is one of Japan’s biggest 3rd-party social game makers and developed titles on Mobage, Yahoo-Mobage, Mixi, GREE, and Nico Nico Douga...
It has become quiet about Yahoo-Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform Yahoo Japan (the country’s biggest website) and DeNA launched in October 2010, in recent months. But now Yahoo Japan, on its company blog, says that the platform has reached the 7 million registered user mark. It took...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry