By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA has, for the first time, bought a company in Europe. Amsterdam-based Rough Cookie, a social games maker DeNA’s ngmoco has been collaborating with since 2008, was acquired through an all-cash deal today. Rough Cookie follows the acquisitions of Icebreaker, Astro Ape, Gameview, and ngmoco...
Tokyo-based Genki has announced “Gang Warz” for Mobage for Smartphone, a social game for Android that looks much like a shameless clone of Grand Theft Auto. In the game, players take on the role of a street gang member whose gang battles it out with other Mobage players and who has to...
Legendary Japanese science-fiction anime Space Battleship Yamato has been turned into a social game and already been made available on GREE, the company announced today. In the game, which is called “Space Battleship Yamato – Battle Cards” and takes place in a Sci-Fi setting...
Tokyo-based gaming company Spicysoft has announced it has landed a hit with Charisocial, a social game it has launched on Mobage 3 months ago: the company says that it has racked up 500,000 users since then. What’s special about this number is that according to Spicysoft, promotional efforts...
DeNA not only launched the native Mobage app for Android today (see here), the company also announced (press release in Japanese) it will strengthen game engine support for 3rd party developers that want to release social games on Mobage for smartphones. DeNA says they will offer the Mobage SDK...
DeNA finally did it: the company officially launched (press release in Japanese) the Mobage Android App (“Mobage for Smartphone”) today, albeit in Japan only for the time being. If you’re viewing this on an Android phone, visit this link to get the app. (In December, DeNA already...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry