By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
A quite good-looking RPG was added to mobile social gaming platform Mobage today, “S.U.N Episode Mobile”, a special version of Soul of the Ultimate Nation (an online fantasy MMORPG for Windows PCs). Made by Korean gaming company Webzen, the PC game was first launched in various Asian...
Zynga Japan today introduced a new CEO, a Japanese person this time: Kenji Matsubara, who previously led video game company Tecmo Koei, will take over the role from Robert Goldberg on May 9. Goldberg was sent over to Japan from Zynga proper, after the company bought Tokyo-based social games maker...
“Mobagetown” is no more: earlier today, DeNA‘s rebranding of its mobile social game platform to just “Mobage” (short for mobile games) came into effect. In addition, Yahoo Mobagetown, the PC social gaming site DeNA operates in cooperation with Yahoo Japan, is now...
CyberAgent (its subsidiary Sumzap, to be more precise) has just announced the launch of social game Karisuma Shachou No Ketsudan (Determination of a charismatic company president) on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. Two things are special about this this title: Karisuma was designed by famous...
Tokyo-based mobile social games maker Mobile Factory (English company website) announced a new game that’s now available on GREE for feature phones in Japan. What’s special about “Eki Dash” is that it’s a location-based social game (although it’s not the first of...
That was quick: Dwango today announced they will close Nicoga, a casual gaming service built on top of their super-popular video sharing platform Nico Nico Douga. Nicoga was started in September 2010 and will cease to exist on April 27 this year. Nicoga is still accessible through Nico Nico...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry