By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA issued its financial report for the second quarter of this fiscal year today, and year-on-year, the numbers look pretty good: sales reached US$457 million for the quarter (which ended on September 30), which translates to a 28% plus year-on-year. Operating income hit US$203 million (+13%). The...
A nice win for DeNA: Konami has silently released one of their top social games on GREE, namely social baseball card game Professional Baseball Dream Nine, on Mobage today. The game is now available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones and Mobage for Android. It looks like Konami just...
Japanese web and digital advertising powerhouse CyberAgent has posted its financial report for fiscal 2011 today. And in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the owner of blogging platform Ameba, virtual world Ameba Pigg, and a handful of social gaming companies: sales: ¥119,578 million...
It’s not the first mobile social game from Square Enix, but DeNA just announced a big win: Final Fantasy is coming to Mobage, albeit for the Japanese market first. Details of the social version of the mega-popular RPG series are scarce, but DeNA says Mobage players can pre-register on Mobage...
Mobage and GREE may have well over 25 million users in Japan each, but that doesn’t stop Forif to try to become another mobile social gaming platform provider in the country. The Tokyo-based company, which was established in 2007, just launched a mobile social gaming service called Joynt...
GREE has announced it bought a 8.3% stake in Mind Palette, a Tokyo-based startup that was established just in November 2010 (and is backed by CyberAgent Ventures). Mind Palette is focusing on one product at the moment: Snapeee, a picture-based social network that lets users add cute and funny...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry