By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Major Tokyo-based mobile game maker gumi (official website) went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, under ticker 3903. As a quick run down of the company’s history, gumi was established in 2007, just about when the mobile game industry in Japan started taking off. After providing games...
Big shake-up in Japan’s gaming industry today: LINE Corp., the company behind Japan’s biggest messenger app LINE, has reached a basic agreement to form a business and capital partnership with top mobile game maker gumi, TechCrunch Japan is reporting. gumi subsidiary Alim has produced...
Earlier this month, Kabam made some heads turn in Japan when the American company announced an international marketing deal with Tokyo-based mobile game maker KLab. That agreement was entered a few months after Kabam set up a US$50 million fund to help Japanese mobile game companies expand globally...
Major Tokyo-based social game maker gumi has today officially announced its first social game in English: Knight Legends is a port of a Japanese title gumi released last year on GREE (“Kishido” was pretty successful and went on to win a platform award from GREE earlier this year). The...
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has released their ranking of the top 50 high-growth companies in Japan in the TMT sector (Technology, Media & Telecommunications), and the rapid expansion of the country’s social gaming sector is clearly reflected in the list. According to Deloitte’s...
Tokyo-based social game maker gumi enters the investment business. As The Nikkei just reported, the GREE partner has spun off a separate investment company to scout for interesting targets in Asia (GREE is a stakeholder in gumi). “gumi Ventures” is mainly looking for China- or Singapore...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry