By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based (and newly listed) social gaming company Klab is going international. KLab Cyscorpions is the name of 100% subsidiary that was launched in Singapore and will handle international smartphone game development for Klab in the future. Tokyo- and Manila-based game maker Cyscorpions (which...
I would have guessed Konami’s J-League Dream Eleven has more users on GREE (where it has been among the top three third-party titles for quite a while now), but according to Gamebiz, the social soccer card game has just hit one million registered players. Competitor EA/gumi’s FIFA World...
The Nikkei is reporting today that GREE added yet another payment method for virtual and avatar-related items in Japan: starting today, players using GREE on smartphones can pay via PayPal. PayPal does have a presence in Japan, but for legal and other reasons, the service hasn’t took off in...
DeNA is already active in China, one of their three self-defined core markets, but it looks like Chinese users will hear more from Mobage soon. The company today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with the Alibaba group, specifically Alibaba Cloud Computing (AliCloud). Under the deal...
I am hearing that Konami’s super hit social game Dragon Collection has been losing steam in recent weeks, but the company yesterday announced that it now counts five million players for the GREE title (feature phone and smartphone users combined). As other companies do, Konami celebrates the...
Popular social card game FIFA World Class Soccer has racked up one million registered players in just 25 days, as Japanese news site Gamebiz reports today. The title went live last month on GREE and immediately took the top spot in the platform’s popularity ranking (for a limited time). And...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry