By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
In December 2010, Japan-based publisher Eastpress started distributing Appli Style, the first (printed) magazine on social games in the world. And now DeNA, or rather its social games platform Mobage, gets its own magazine, too. The so- called Famitsu Mobage has 96 pages (published by Enterbrain)...
Japanese video game behemoth Namco Bandai has released Browser Quest on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform jointly run by DeNA and Yahoo Japan. The title, an original action MMORPG actually looks quite nice and shows what’s possible on the platform. Apart from the nice looks...
DeNA and GMO Internet Group have announced the launch of a cloud computing service aimed at Japan-based social game developers that want to bring their games to international markets, especially the US. Both companies have started offering a similar service for the Japanese market as early as...
Disney hasn’t only entered CyberAgent’s Ameba Piggu virtual world, they just inked a deal with DeNA, too. Disney MyLand is a social themepark simulation game, which features the company’s iconic characters (and which is already available on Mobage). The goal of the game is to...
DeNA has announced it has inked a deal with professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants, Nippon TV and others to bring a “social baseball game” to Mobage next month. The game, dubbed Dramatic Kyojingun (Dramatic Giants), lets Mobage users choose members of the current (and former) Yomiuri...
Major Japanese video game maker Square Enix announced (and already released) Traveling Fairy today, a new fantasy adventure for Mobage for feature phones. As you would expect from Square Enix, the social game looks pretty slick. Traveling Fairy contains location-based elements and lets the player...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry