By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
This was bound to happen: mobile strategy hit game Clash Of Clans is Japan’s top free app on the iPhone as well as the iPad at the moment. This is not really surprising, as Japan’s most popular smartphone title Puzzle & Dragons is currently running an in-game promotion for Clash Of...
Japan’s biggest smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons, which now boasts 15 million users and generated US$113 million in sales in April this year, isn’t the country’s top grossing app on the iPhone anymore – at least for now. As tweeted out by gumi CEO Hironao Kunimitsu around noon...
It is not ending: Japan’s top smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons has topped 15 million users across iOS, Android and Kindle devices on June 8, maker GungHo (3765) said today. What’s interesting is that the company is still able to rack up 1 million users in three weeks or less –...
This is certainly not good news not only for the company affected but for Japan’s mobile game industry as a whole: the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE) suspended trading of shares in Index Corp., a Tokyo-based maker of mobile games, this morning Japanese time. Details are relatively scarce at...
I usually tend to skip news having been made available in English, but here we go: GungHo (3765) and Supercell, the world’s two biggest mobile gaming companies (in terms of revenue) have entered a partnership. To be more specific, it’s a so-called collaboration, a marketing technique...
In February this year, Sega announced it has teamed up with Aiming, a Tokyo-based developer, to develop mobile games aimed at the global market. At the same time, the two companies unveiled their first co-developed title, “MO Action Shooting” game Towa No Tsurugi (more here). Fast forward to June...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry