By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Surprise in Japan’s social gaming industry today: DeNA announced it plans to acquire a 20.03% stake in Tokyo-based Cygames, the company behind card battle game mega hit Rage Of Bahamut. The deal is scheduled to close next month. Mobage operator DeNA is ready to pay a whopping US$92 million (7...
That was quick: about three weeks after reaching 2 million downloads, Japan’s most successful platform-free social game Puzzle & Dragons crossed the 3 million mark. Puzzle & Dragons was released in the Japanese App Store in February this year and on Android in late September. The title...
Is Zynga following through on its announcement to “consider” closing the Tokyo office, after about 2 years of operation in Japan? It looks like it. Zynga Japan will shut down a total of three games on December 21 this year, namely its Pokemon-type social RPG Montopia, Mojitomo (Words...
DeNA released their financial report for Q2 FY2012 today, and in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the Mobage operator. The last quarter is the first in the history of the company in which sales topped 50 billion yen (50.3 billion yen/US$627 million). Operating profit stood at a...
Mixi has released its financial report for the second quarter of fiscal 2012, and it looks like the company’s actual situation is better than its current image in Japan. Sales and profit have gone up year-on-year as follows, but most of the key financial numbers went sideways or south quarter...
The banning of kompu gacha is still affecting GREE‘s financials, if a report the Nikkei published earlier today in Japan is to be believed. According to the paper, GREE will report an operating profit of US$199 million (16 billion yen) for the quarter that ended September 30 – which...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry