By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
As I mentioned earlier, the LINE Games platform has been very much overrated since its launch in 2012. One of the main reasons is that most of the titles are extremely casual, and most belong to one genre: puzzle games. There has been an inflation of these “light” games (some of which...
GREE is apparently close to releasing Lost In Stars, a 3D MMORPG that looks pretty awesome. The game has been in development at GREE Korea, which makes it difficult at the moment to obtain info in English or Japanese. One of the recently released images I copied and pasted below says “Coming...
The social gaming industry in Japan continues to mature, and the new title Tokyo-based Pokelabo announced must be seen as another step in the right direction: instead of creating yet another social RPG or card battler, the company decided to go for the action genre this time. Details are scarce at...
The number of 3D social games in Japan is slowly increasing, and Dark Menace from Tokyo-based Grasshopper Universe (not to be confused with Grasshopper Manufacture) is the latest such title. It just went live on Mobage for smartphones in Japan (Android, iOS). In a nutshell, Dark Menace is a...
It took a long time, but months after DeNA announced it has secured the talent of high-profile game maker Goichi Suda (aka Suda51), the first title is finally out. Available for Mobage on Android and in Japanese only, No More Heroes – World Ranker is marketed as a “social assassin...
Legendary video game series Ninja Gaiden is getting the social treatment. Maker Koei Tecmo announced “1 Million People’s Ninja Gaiden” for Mobage yesterday, a mix between 3D action and social card battle game. Players will take on the role of ninja Ryu Hayabusa (who is also the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry