By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I can’t say this is a big surprise: Zynga announced it will release the two original games that its Japanese subsidiary developed so far, Montopia and Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, in the West. Both titles belong to the social card battle game genre and have been released in Japan earlier this year...
GREE just announced it has secured the rights to create the first “official” sumo social game, Oozumou Card Kessen (Professional Sumo Card Battle). The company is developing the title in-house and plans to release it on GREE for feature phones and smartphones in November (pre...
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced that it has teamed up with Capcom in a pretty big deal under which the Osaka-based video game company will release a total six social games on the GREE platform by the end of the year. The six titles are: Everybody’s Capcom All Stars (release on...
Hit video game series “Professor Layton” is getting a new social version: DeNA today announced “Professor Layton and Seven Thieves of the Century”, a social game that Mobage users in Japan can pre-register for starting today (a launch date isn’t fixed yet). This is the second...
In recent months, Square Enix has seen great success with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social card battle game the company launched in April in the Japanese App Store. Fast forward to today, and said title is still sitting firmly in the top 10 of the top grossing iPhone apps in Japan. It was the...
There is already a social gaming platform embedded in Japan’s real-identity social network Mixi (on both the PC and mobile versions), but that’s apparently no reason not to open a second one. Dubbed mixi Park, the new social gaming platform was launched today by Mixi itself and Konami...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry