Gundam Royal, a social “space action” game offered on Mobage for feature phones and smartphones, now boasts 4 million registered users. Maker Namco Bandai released the title, which is based on Gundam, a super-popular Japanese anime series, in December 2010. Gundam Royal took 7 months to...
Bandai Namco’s Gundam Masters Hits 2 Million Users On GREE [Social Games]
Bandai Namco’s excellent, Gundam-based Sci-Fi social game Gundam Masters reached the two million user milestone on GREE. The title was released on September 1 last year and racked up the first million users in about 4 weeks. In other words, growth slowed down significantly, but Namco Bandai...
On GREE: Bandai Namco’s Gundam Masters Hits 1 Million Users [Social Games]
Bandai Namco announced [PDF] that one of their titles on GREE, Gundam-based Sci-Fi social game Gundam Masters, has hit 1 million registered users on October 3. What’s interesting is that the game was released just on September 1, meaning it added an impressive 1,262 players per hour since...
Gundam Royal: Bandai Namco’s Social Game Hits 3 Million Users On Mobage [Social Games]
Bandai Namco announced today that their most successful social game, Gundam Royal, has hit 3 million users on Mobage. The cute “space action” game is based on Gundam, a super-popular Japanese anime series. Gundam Royal was launched on Mobage in December, meaning Bandai Namco needed 7...
Which Major Game Companies In Japan Are Active In Web3 Gaming? Almost All Of Them
While some of the big European and American game companies have expressed skepticism about Web3 gaming, scaled down ambitions or adopted a wait-and-see approach, things are very much different in Japan. (In that context, Japan is actually similar to South Korea (or Asia in general), but I will...
Release Calendar For Listed Japanese Mobile Game Companies (As Of May 3)
Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...