By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Capcom and Tokyo-based social game maker Gloops (which was recently acquired for US$470 million by Nexon) have released “Resident Evil: Clan Master” on Mobage in Japan today. The title, actually dubbed Biohazard: Clan Master (Biohazard is the Japanese brand name), is available on Mobage...
“GREE Loves Indies” – that’s the name of a new program GREE International has just set up. Under the initiative, the company is reaching out to US-based developers (Japan or other countries are out) to develop games for its global platform. GREE plans to collect applications...
The flood of Japanese social card battle games aimed at the global market continues: Tokyo-based Gloops, which was just acquired by Nexon, released “Warriors Of Odin” on Mobage yesterday. The title is the company’s first social game in English and is currently available on Mobage...
Everybody reading this will know that Japan’s social gaming industry is “big”, has been growing at a fast clip in recent years and is projected to expand in the years to come. Domestic sales of video game hardware and software, however, have been dropping in the last five years...
Tokyo-based KLab announced today that the number of registered users playing their social games crossed the 20 million mark at the end of September. The company offers around two dozen different titles across Mobage, Mixi, GREE, the App Store and Google Play (direct), and the soon to be released...
What an exit today in Japan’s social gaming industry: Korean gaming powerhouse Nexon (currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$6 billion market cap – more than DeNA or GREE) has acquired gloops (corporate site). The size of the deal reaches a staggering Yen 36.5 billion...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry