By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
“Monhan Tankenki Maboroshi no Shima”, a social game from Capcom’s super-popular fantasy game series Monster Hunter (19 million units sold so far), has been released on December 19 (it has been announced last month). The title is available on GREE for feature phones and smartphones and has...
Klab has ported its soccer-themed social game Captain Tsubasa to GREE, a few weeks after the title crossed the 1.5 million user mark on Mobage. The company has probably paid quite a few yen to acquire the license for the famous soccer anime and manga from the 1980s, which means the port isn’t...
CyberAgent America is launching another social game on Facebook. To be precise, “Magical Saga” is a fantasy title developed by Gcrest America, which is the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based game maker Gcrest (which is a subsidiary of CyberAgent). Magical Saga is specifically designed for a...
Social games on Facebook aren’t a big topic in Japan at the moment, but Zynga Japan has announced it translated one of the parent company’s biggest hits, Empires & Allies, into Japanese. The game has so far been available in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and seven other...
Tokyo-based (and newly listed) social game maker Klab is entering the venture capital business. The company’s newly launched subsidiary Klab Ventures has announced it will establish a VC firm together with major Japanese VC SBI Investment this month. Both partners will hold a 50% stake in the...
It’s not a big surprise: MySpace Japan will close its office early next year, according to Japanese news site IT Media. According to the report, MySpace in the US will manage the Japanese version starting February 1, 2012. MySpace Japan was established as early as November 2006, but the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry