Puzzle & Dragons, Japan’s top smartphone game, now counts 9 million users: the puzzle/RPG hybrid actually reached that milestone on February 18, just a few days after hitting 8 million downloads late last month. The chart below, compiled by Social Game Info, shows how Puzzle & Dragons grew to 9 million users since launch on…
Tokyo-based mobile game maker Colopl got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday and saw its share price soar 88% from 3,000 to 5,650 yen on the first day (ticker: 3668). The listing was announced last month. And it is a pretty big one: Colopl is boasting a 40 billion yen (US$480 million) market cap currently….
Tokyo-based social game maker enish got listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Mothers section for startups today (ticker: 3667), as announced last month. The stock price went up from 800 Yen to 1,360 Yen, helping the company to reach a 3.3 billion yen (US$40 million) market cap. In other words, enish’s IPO was relatively small. To…
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….
It took a while, but the multi-billion dollar Japanese social gaming industry finally has its own association, named JASGA (Japan Social Game Association). JASGA’s establishment has (no doubt) been accelerated by the kompu gacha shock that hit the industry in May, followed by public pressure and the calling for regulation and control of the industry….
DeNA, GREE, KLab, Voltage, Index, A-team, Crooz… the list of publicly traded social gaming companies in Japan is about to get longer. Tokyo-based enish has announced it filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public at the Mothers section for startups on December 11 (ticker: 3667). The company was established under the name Synphonie in February…
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 just confirmed the plan (and almost all the points leaked by…
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 Bushimo mobile gaming platform. Its first…