By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based Silicon Studio has quietly filed an application for an IPO and today announced it got accepted by the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Silicon Studio is planning to get listed on February 23. If everything goes according to plan, it will be the first IPO of a gaming company in Japan this year...
Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
The Oculus Rift boasts a rabid fan base in Japan, with many users over here setting up communities, organizing events all over the country, and, of course, developing applications for the VR system. Quite surprisingly, Colopl (3668), one of Japan’s biggest mobile game makers (US$3 billion...
Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
Major Tokyo-based mobile game maker gumi (official website) went public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange today, under ticker 3903. As a quick run down of the company’s history, gumi was established in 2007, just about when the mobile game industry in Japan started taking off. After providing games...
Here is an updated calendar of major free-to-play native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that these titles can be modified, canceled, or released at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as games can...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry