By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
If you have accessed this site over the past few weeks, you may have noticed this banner popping up quite prominently: The banner links to the site of my consultancy, “Kantan Games, Inc.” (in English and Japanese). “Kantan” is Japanese for “simple” or...
For everybody expecting game-related stuff: sorry to hijack the site for this post - this might happen more often in the future. Both projects would need to get started as soon as possible and require somebody living in Tokyo for various reasons. The budget is limited. Needless to say, proposals to...
The first Insert Coin! event will be held in Tokyo on Wednesday next week, and I was given the chance to hold a presentation about (what else) mobile games in Japan. Hiroki Omae, the Regional Director for Unity Japan, will also be speaking. Here are some links to Insert Coin! websites: Official...
Korean tech blog beSUCCESS is organizing the beLAUNCH 2012 conference, the first global startup event ever to be hosted in that country (from June 13-14). The event is a little light on games, unfortunately, but offers an interesting program with of speakers coming to Seoul from all over the world...
Today is my last day as staff writer for TechCrunch.com. Thank you to everybody at TechCrunch, first and foremost Michael Arrington (now a venture capitalist), Erick Schonfeld (now editor-in-chief), and John Biggs (editor of TechCrunch Gadgets) for the last four years. I also thank the people at...
I received the confirmation that I will be delivering the keynote presentation for the SparxUp Awards 2011, a web and mobile startup event to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 21, 2011. My topic will be “Innovation, Imitation and Hyper-Localization”. The event will be held in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry