By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Shin Sengoku Buster, a “historic” social game developed by Tokyo-based social game maker Klab, hit one million users. Klab started offering the game in March last year, first on Mobage for feature phones. Shin Sengoku Buster was ported to smartphones later: just last week, the game...
CyberAgent had an excellent first financial quarter in fiscal 2012 overall, and in the gaming/Ameba segment in particular. The company also shared plans for its gaming business in the next few months during the earnings call. It seems CyberAgent is determined to push more aggressively into the...
CyberAgent‘s financial results as a whole are very positive for the first quarter of fiscal 2012, but what about (social) games in particular? The company has quite a few social game companies under its roof, namely Cygames Inc., CyberX Co., Ltd., Sumzap, Inc., and GCREST, Inc., etc. There...
CyberAgent released its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 in English, and in a nutshell, things are looking very good for the Ameba operator. The company summarizes its financial performance in that time frame as follows: Net sales reached 32,146 million yen (up 11.7% from the...
Another IP-based social game in Japan, this time from Konami. The company announced the launch of Star Wars Collection, a social game based on the movie service, for GREE. Star Wars is obviously one of the biggest franchises out there, even though I doubt it will have the same effect in Japan that...
Given how big the domestic social gaming market already is and how quickly it is projected to grow, it’s not really a surprise that Japan gets a “Social Game Academy”. Needless to say, it’s the first company (this obviously isn’t an NPO) of its kind anywhere in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry