By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Klab acquired Tokyo-based social game maker Dream Laboratory, the company announced today. Dream Laboratory was founded in 2006, currently employs 19 people, and offers games on Mobage and Yahoo Mobage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but given the current talent crunch in Japan’s...
Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker Index announced that Persona 3 Social, the social version of the classic RPG series, has crossed the 1 million user mark. The players are spread over Persona 3 Social on Mobage (feature phone only), GREE (smartphone and feature phone), and Yahoo Mobage on...
Klab has ported its soccer-themed social game Captain Tsubasa to GREE, a few weeks after the title crossed the 1.5 million user mark on Mobage. The company has probably paid quite a few yen to acquire the license for the famous soccer anime and manga from the 1980s, which means the port isn’t...
The number isn’t impressive as Konami’s, but Tecmo Koei is now counting a total of five million registered players for their social games offered on GREE, Mobage, and Yahoo Mobage. The “traditional” video game maker is seeing a 27% profit margin in the online and mobile...
Sega announced that Phantasy Star, one of the most successful RPG series of all time, has been released on Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA‘s PC-based social gaming platform. The Flash-based social version is called “Phantasy Star – Eternal Planets”, with Sega...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform on Yahoo Japan, has reached 6 million users. The joint venture was set up by Yahoo Japan and DeNA in October 2010. It took Yahoo Mobage: 51 days to get to the first million members 53 more days to add another one million another 61 days to reach 3...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry