By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE‘s partnership with Tencent is bearing some fruit: Taito’s Android game Spy Wars has been made available on the Chinese social networking platform. To be more concrete, Spy Wars is deployed on the ” Tencent Wireless Open Platform for Community for smartphones”. GREE...
It’s not really a social game but a good title to have for DeNA in its portfolio: the company today announced the launch of “Space Invaders Infinity Gene LITE” for Mobage. The Mobage version of the legendary shooting game series (Space Invaders looks back at a 33 year-old history)...
Facebook has launched Instant Games yesterday, a new HTML5 cross-platform that could lead to a new era in gaming. In a nutshell, Facebook allows developers to deploy games that run completely within the Facebook and Messenger clients (both on mobile and desktop). One tap of the user is enough, and...
Shortly after DeNA (2432) and GREE (3632) pioneered the concept of mobile gaming as the world knows it today (free-to-play business model, bite-sized content embedded in social networks to increase stickiness, data analysis to improve monetization, etc.) in 2006/2007 on feature phones, a flood of...
If this becomes reality, this is surely one of the biggest developments in Japan’s mobile gaming scene in recent months. The country’s biggest business daily The Nikkei just reported on its website that a total of 15 Japanese mobile game makers are preparing to join forces in marketing...
Chat app LINE, which just crossed the 100 million user mark, continues to impress with amazing numbers for its LINE Game platform. Operator NHN Japan today announced that tile-matching game LINE Pop hit a staggering 20 million downloads on January 16. The title was released worldwide on November 19...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry