By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent has announced it started offering its hit game Twinkle Bar on Mixi Touch (the smartphone browser version of Mixi) and Ameba Mobile. The title, a bar management simulation, has racked up 2 million users on Mixi Mobile (Mixi on feature phones) in about a year. On Ameba Mobile (Ameba on...
The trend in Japan to port more and more social games from feature phones over to smartphones (and start with the hit games first) continues. CyberAgent recently brought Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town) to the App Store (free download), its popular cocktail bar simulation. The iPhone...
CyberAgent‘s gaming subsidiary CyberX today announced that one of its hit social games on Mixi, Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town), has made its way to GREE for Japanese feature phones. As the name suggests, Hoshizora Bar Town is a “bar management simulation”: players set up...
Uma Musume is the last really big hit in Japan’s mobile game industry, following the popular RPG Dragon Quest Walk from Colopl (3668) in 2019. Released only domestically in February 2021, Uma Musume instantly climbed up not only the download but also up the grossing rankings – and more...
Tokyo-based Cygames, a 100% subsidiary of Japanese web powerhouse Cyberagent, is on a roll. The company behind social game mega-hit Rage Of Bahamut announced it has registered its 10 millionth user on July 14. Cygames, which is barely a year old (established in May 2011), currently employs 262...
Japan’s leading social gaming companies GREE, DeNA, Mixi, NHN, CyberAgent, and Dwango (which established an industry council back in March) have released a new set (Japanese only) of self-regulatory measures. Last month, the industry tackled just the kompu gacha mechanic in a guideline, but...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry