By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Following the deal with Hasbro to bring Transformers to Mobage, DeNA has now unveiled details about its previously announced Marvel game. In a nutshell, Marvel: War of Heroes will be exclusively available on Mobage in the form of a social card battle game. DeNA and Marvel Entertainment promise...
From today, LINE, the impossibly successful messenger app made by NHN Japan, isn’t a messenger app anymore. As previously announced by the company, LINE is now officially a social network. By that, LINE tries to compete with Facebook. By focusing on mobile and a tight social graph, it tries...
Osaka-based Dimps has released Alien Vs. Gunners for Mobage on Wednesday, a social shooting game in 3D (powered by Unity). The game offers extra-cute graphics and music, weird characters (see the screenshots below), and the following story: evil aliens are attacking planet Earth in the year...
Konami released their financial report for Q1 of fiscal 2013 (April to June 2012), and things aren’t looking too good for the company. Here’s the basic financial overview: Just like in Q1 of last fiscal, Konami’s social game segment made more money than its consumer games segment:...
On the road to (possibly) becoming a global mobile social gaming platform, Mobage operator DeNA has always been taking the Chinese market much more seriously than GREE. To recap, DeNA has so far signed deals with the following companies in China (in chronological order): AliBaba Kaixin001 Netdragon...
GREE announced a pretty interesting partnership with NCsoft yesterday: under the deal, the Korean company will release a new version of Lineage, its popular MMORPG, on GREE for mobile devices. GREE says that the new Lineage game is just the first title that will come out of the partnership...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry