By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
One day before the disastrous earthquake hit Japan, GREE announced the release of a new potential hit title, namely 100 Man Shin Sangoku Musou (known as Dynasty Warriors in the west). The game series has a 14-year history on consoles. Like many of its console counterparts on, the GREE version is a...
Japan’s mobile social gaming giants continue their global expansion. After having opened an office in San Francisco in January, GREE today announced it will establish offices in Singapore, Beijing and London this spring. In Singapore, GREE acquired a stake in mobile social network mig33 in...
The newest title that has been added to GREE yesterday proves two things: a) big makers of “traditional” console games continue to develop mobile social games, and b) even unusual concepts can be turned into social games. Case in point: Uma Tama. Developed by major video game company...
DeNA announced that users of the Yahoo Mobage platform for PC-based social games as well as those playing games on Mobagetown on smartphones can now pay for virtual items using BitCash. BitCash is a popular e-money service in japan that can be used to make payments on the web. Users can transfer...
It’s no secret that Japan is very much an anime nation, which is why the license deal DeNA () inked today with Toei Animation is potentially good news for them (Toei is one of Japan’s biggest anime production studios). Under the deal, DeNA will develop mobile social games based on anime...
PC-based social games are on the rise in Japan: DeNA announced that Yahoo Mobage, the social gaming platform it operates with Yahoo Japan, now has 3 million users. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million and now another 61 days to...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry