By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that Kabam has signed a deal with Tokyo-based (and listed) mobile game maker KLab (3656). Under the deal, Kabam will market and distribute some of KLab’s titles in the US as well as Europe. KLab’s most famous game internationally is...
Investors in stock from publicly traded Japanese mobile gaming companies need nerves of steel, especially right now. Case in point: KLab (3656), the Tokyo-based mobile game maker that’s known outside Japan for its card battler “Lord Of The Dragons”. The company had a number of...
Interesting news: “mid-sized” Tokyo-based mobile social game maker KLab (3656) has entered a partnership with Microsoft. Under the agreement, Microsoft will start offering mobile games for iOS as well as Android by the end of this fiscal year (March 2014) – globally. The company...
KLab, the social game maker from Japan with 20 million users, has released Eternal Uprising on Android, its second title in English. Eternal Uprising follows Lord Of The Dragons, which hit the US App Store on September 14 and shot up all the way to No. 1 in the same store a few days later. Lord Of...
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
Lord Of The Dragons, the first English-language title by Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker KLab, has hit the top spot in the US App Store ranking for free games. According to KLab’s press release, this was the case on September 28 (and probably for a few hours) only, and God knows...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry