By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Konami released Daifugo Monsters on dgame earlier this week, NTT Docomo’s new cross-device platform for mobile social games (whose launch turned quite a few heads last month). Gameplay is based on Daifugo, a Japanese card game that’s known as President (and under other names) in other...
It took them a bit longer than expected (the plan was to launch last month), but NTT Docomo today launched its social gaming platform dgame. At the start, Japan’s biggest telco (60 million mobile subscriber) is offering a total of 11 games inside dgame, which itself is nested inside...
The Nikkei caused a big splash two weeks ago when the business daily broke the news that Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo (around 60 million subscribers) is planning to enter the social gaming business. The information available back then was relatively thin, but Docomo...
Supercell, King, Game Insight, Gameloft, Social Quantum, Goodgame, Tencent, Machine Zone, WeMade, Kabam etc. etc.: the list of foreign game makers active in the lucrative Japanese mobile gaming market has sure grown longer and longer over the last months and years. Berlin-based Wooga is next: the...
It’s been quite a while since I last lost a word on dgame, the mobile social gaming platform NTT Docomo set up last December. But today, NTT Docomo announced a remarkable deal with Square Enix under which “Dragon Quest X for dgame” will come exclusively to the telco’s...
Supercell, King, Game Insight, Social Quantum, Goodgame, Tencent, WeMade, Kabam, Pocket Gems: the list of foreign mobile game companies with an interest in Japan is getting longer and longer. Among the ones that are already here, EA Japan has caused the biggest splash in recent months in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry