By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Kompu what? DeNA released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 today (April to June 2012), and things are looking pretty good for the company. Apparently, the kompu gacha (complete gacha) shock that hit Japan’s social gaming industry in May, didn’t have that much of an effect on the...
Social card battle game Rage Of Bahamut racked up 3 million players outside Japan, maker Cygames announced today. The Mobage title hit 2 million users outside this country on July 10, meaning it took just 28 days to add the third million. Inside Mobage’s Japanese platform, Rage of Bahamut has...
Sekigahara Engi, a social card battle game developed by Tokyo-based D2C, hit the 1 million user mark on July 2 (the news was made public on Monday). The interesting bullet point here is that the app is only available in Japanese, only on smartphones (download for iOS and Android here), and...
Way back in September 2009, GREE sued DeNA for infringing the copyright on their hit social game Tsuri Star (Fishing Star outside Japan). GREE claimed that its biggest rival (or to be more precise: the developer of the game, Tokyo-based mobile tech company Orso) copied certain designs and game...
Tokyo-based social game maker Crooz announced the opening of two new offices outside Japan, Crooz America (in San Francisco, on August 1) and Crooz Asia (in Singapore, on July 26). Both subsidiaries will be headed by Japanese executives and focus on marketing some of Crooz’ Japanese titles in...
Mixi posted its financial report for Q1 FY2012, and in a nutshell, things look mixed (no pun intended) for Japan’s biggest real-identity social network. To dive right into it, sales went up 18.5% in the April-June quarter 2012 when compared to the same timeframe last year. Profits even went...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry