By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I don’t think this is surprising to anyone: GREE just announced it has acquired another American company, following Openfeint and Funzio. This time the target was App Ant, a social games studio based in California. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. App Ant has worked together with...
GREE is getting ready for their appearance at the Tokyo Game Show 2012 next week, the second after the event last year. Visitors can expect a keynote speech from GREE CEO Yoshikazu, a brand new GREE first-party title, and a total of 33 games at the company’s booth. Here’s the complete...
The number of 3D social games in Japan is slowly increasing, and Dark Menace from Tokyo-based Grasshopper Universe (not to be confused with Grasshopper Manufacture) is the latest such title. It just went live on Mobage for smartphones in Japan (Android, iOS). In a nutshell, Dark Menace is a...
In June, Bandai Namco caused quite a splash when the company announced a partnership with GREE under which a number of selected social games would be released on GREE’s Japanese and global platforms. (Before that, Bandai Namco inked a similar deal with Mobage in 2011, which was even refreshed in...
That was quick: just two weeks after the release in Canada, Tokyo-based social game maker KLab started offering Lord Of The Dragons in the US App Store yesterday (free download). It’s the first major release in English for KLab, which established KLab America in San Francisco in April this...
It looks like the number of active users for Facebook in Japan is now higher than that of Mixi. In March this year, Facebook caused a splash when the Tokyo office revealed its number of MAU doubled to 10 million from September 2011. Back then, I wrote: “If Facebook can keep this growth rate...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry