By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Lord Of The Dragons, the first English-language title by Tokyo-based (and listed) social game maker KLab, has hit the top spot in the US App Store ranking for free games. According to KLab’s press release, this was the case on September 28 (and probably for a few hours) only, and God knows...
A few weeks after the first cautious announcement, GungHo finally announced they will take Puzzle & Dragons, their impossibly successful mobile social game, global today. The title was launched in Japan in February on iOS and got ported to Android just last week. Puzzle & Dragons is...
The first “Social Gaming Asia Summit” is going to take place in Macau in November, and as the name suggests, it will be a very Asia-focused industry event. The website of the event can be found here (full brochure download), and it’s still possible to register for it here. The...
Nobody can be really surprised about this, but I myself have been wondering why Japan’s big telcos keep refusing to enter the country’s big social gaming market for years, especially as all three are aggressively moving from data and voice to content sales. But today the local mobile...
I think DeNA has been clearly outpacing GREE lately when it comes to high-quality first-party games. Social RPG “Guilty Dragon”, social shooter “Macross SP Deculture”, social RPG “Valkyries In The Twilight”, and card battle game Souken No Cross Edge all look pretty good to me. And now DeNA is...
And yet another social card battle game from a Japanese maker is going global: this time, from Axel Mark. The Tokyo-based (and listed) company last month announced a cooperation with DeNA for their international business. At that time, it already said that Kingdom Wars will be the first title being...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry