By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based gloops announced they have racked up 100,000 users on Mobage for its newest social game Magigate – in just 7 hours. The biggest third-party developer on the platform released the social card battle game on February 17. The company owes this success to a number of factors, i.e. the...
GREE is currently in the spotlight in Japanese media, following reports that their top social game, Tanken Doliland, is affected by a bug that lets users copy rare cards and auction them off online to other players. For more background on this issue, see: Gree’s Tanken Doriland Bug Let Users Copy...
One of the main reasons DeNA, GREE and (some of) the 400+ third-party social game makers in Japan are raking in as much money as they do is “gacha”, a special element found in almost every social game in this country. I created a quick guide to explain the gacha phenomenon: I)...
Today is a big day for DeNA: after rolling out the awesome-looking Infinity Blade Cross on Mobage for Japanese iPhones, the company just announced the launch of Daum Mobage in South Korea. The partnership with Daum, one of Korea’s biggest web portals, was announced last November. The plan is...
Good news for DeNA: the company just announced the launch of Infinity Blade Cross, the social game version of the iOS super hit. The title, which was announced way back in June last year, is exclusively available on Mobage in the Japanese App Store. DeNA explains: Infinity Blade Cross is a free-to...
DeNA partner Namco Bandai has another hit social game in its portfolio: Idolmaster Cinderella Girls, a “social idol-raising game”, is now boasting over one million users on Mobage. The title, the first social version in the popular Idolmaster video game series, was announced last...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry