By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
LINE operator NHN Japan has been extremely slow in rolling out social games for their hyper-popular chat app (75 million downloads and counting), but the second wave of games is finally ready. All of these games run on the LINE Game platform and let users connect with each other. They follow LINE...
Legend of the Cryptids and Monster Maestro maker Applibot has released its third social game outside the Japanese market. Dubbed “Galaxy Saga”, the title is now available in English on the App Store. Just like the first two social games, Galaxy Saga is a F2P platform-free card battler...
Tokyo-based (and listed) Drecom is once again trying it with an English-language mobile social game: Reign Of Dragons, a “typical” F2P card battle game, is now available on iOS. Drecom isn’t really mentioning it in the iTunes app description, but the company used the GREE platform...
Final Fantasy Brigade, the social RPG Square Enix started distributing on Mobage in January this year, has reached the 3 million user mark – exactly 310 days after launch, as Social Game Info calculated. Mobage operator DeNA and Square Enix have co-developed the first social version of the...
What I learned is that many people in the social gaming industry outside Japan don’t know that GREE and Mobage operator DeNA have actually been running multiple platforms in Japan over the last few years, not just one. Apart from Yahoo Mobage on the PC, these are GREE and Mobage on: Japanese...
Konami’s top social game Dragon Collection is now available for download in the US App Store, after a 3-month test drive in Canada. The game didn’t really do that well in Canada, but it seems Konami and its distribution partner GREE are now ready to see how American users react to the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry