By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I summarized my personal prediction on both GREE‘s and DeNA‘s chances of becoming the leading platform providers for mobile social games in the US (and globally) back in March. I was actually pessimistic in September 2011 already. In fact, I was pessimistic since I first started...
Capcom released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 (April to June 2012) today, and things are looking pretty good. All key numbers increased sharply, i.e. the operating profit (up 240% to 2.6 billion yen/US$33.3 billion) or net income, which is about four times higher at now US$12.6 million...
It’s the third title in about 4 weeks: GREE is planning to shut down another one of their first-party social games, Dragon Master, on August 24. Earlier this month, GREE announced it will scratch Bakumatsu Kingdom (on July 2) and Sangokushi Kingdom (which will be removed today). GREE...
Dark Summoner, a mobile social card battle game available in English and Japanese, has racked up 1 million downloads, maker Ateam is reporting. What’s interesting is that Dark Summoner was released on February 23 this year (in Japan and elsewhere), meaning the title took just about 150 days...
Quite a few financial results from social gaming companies are due in the next days, and CyberAgent is the first company to report (for the April-June 2012 quarter). In a nutshell, sales and operating profit were up, but the Japanese web powerhouse missed expectations from analysts – and got...
Mobage is seeing quite a few titles marketed as so-called “next-generation” social games lately: following social shooting game Macross SP Deculture and social RPG Valkyries In The Twilight, a new title called “Guilty Dragon” is supposed to help bring social games in Japan...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry