By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rage Of Bahamut is being advertised on Japanese TV again. As I previously mentioned, TV commercials for social games are not really rare in this country, especially for the Mobage and GREE platforms and selected individual titles. Rage Of Bahamut’s first TV commercial was broadcast in...
Even though Gameloft operates its own social network for their games (Gameloft Live), the company has partnered up with GREE to release a few titles in which the social element is especially strong. The first such title, Gang Domination, was released a few weeks ago on GREE’s global platform...
LINE, the popular messenger app made by NHN Japan, is now available for Blackberry OS, the company announced yesterday. As almost nobody in Japan uses a Blackberry (I’d say the “man on the street” wouldn’t even know what the term Blackberry means), this version was created...
One of GREE‘s biggest Japanese brands, Monpla (short for Monster Planet), is getting a global treatment. The company has released Monpla Splash for iOS yesterday, a new social RPG (in English) that’s based on the original game GREE released in Japan in summer 2010. GREE explains: MONPLA...
Dragon Collection, a social card battle game on GREE, is nothing but a phenomenon. Not only has maker Konami paved the way for an the biggest genre in Japan’s social gaming market right now, the title also boasts a very long life cycle (for example, it’s still No. 2 in GREE’s...
GREE caused a bit of a splash in American media today when the company, for the first time, broke out sales numbers for markets outside Japan (essentially the US). The company says that in the first quarter of this year (January-March) sales in the US reached $12.15 million. In Q2, sales increased...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry