By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Zombie Jombie – that’s the name of GREE‘s first game specifically designed for a non-Japanese audience. It took the company over a year to release a title outside its home market, and following a “stealth” test roll-out in the Canadian App Store, Zombie Jombie hit the...
I am excited to follow an invitation from Singapore’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) to give a presentation on Japan’s social gaming industry. The title of the presentation will be “Mobile Social Gaming: How Japan Is Pioneering The Next Multi-Billion...
Back in February 2011, Sega launched the first social version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku, its popular action-adventure game series on GREE for feature phones. (The video game version is known as “Yakuza” in the US and other places.) In July 2011, Sega followed up with a social Yakuza game on GREE for the...
As I was assuming, it didn’t take long for DeNA (ngmoco, to be more precise) to finally start Mobage in English on the iOS platform. ngmoco made a public announcement on March 2 on Mobage’s US Facebook page, and launched the first Mobage-powered iOS titles in the US App Store on March...
That was quick: just a few days after the iOS version, Zynga Japan released Montopia, its social RPG/Pokemon clone, on the Android Market today. Just like the iOS game, Montopia on Android is only available to Japanese users at this point. I am assuming Zynga uses Japan as a test market before...
Big news for DeNA: its US company ngmoco just announced that Mobage will soon be available as an English version on iOS. Minutes ago, ngmoco posted this status update on Mobage’s official Facebook page: “Soon” probably means that Mobage on iOS is just hours or days away (I asked...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry