By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent, through its subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, invested in Vietnam-based smartphone game maker Colorbox (terms of the deal weren’t disclosed). The startup was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. This is CyberAgent’s second deal with a game maker in a row:...
How long will Japan’s social card battle game boom last? My prediction is that Japanese players will start having enough of this genre in 12-18 months – there are simply too many of these games around, and they all work the same way (see here for my explanation of social card game...
Nice win for DeNA today: Sega’s legendary fighting game series Virtua Fighter (that really is the correct spelling) is going social. “Virtua Fighter Cool Champ” (awful title) launched today on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. Virtua Fighter Cool Champ is a social card battle...
Mobage is getting a pretty good-looking social horror RPG: Square Enix has started distributing “Sokotsune Underworld” on Mobage for Japanese feature phones today. The game is using Cthulhu, the famous fictional divinity created by H.P. Lovecraft, as the background for the story. In the...
GREE‘s globally integrated mobile social gaming platform is just a few months away, and after presenting details about dev support for “GREE 2.0”, the company today announced a total of 12 new games. No less than 11 companies based out of mainland China, Hong Kong and Korea are...
Osaka isn’t the only city GREE is moving to: GREE International, GREE’s US company, is ready to move to a new office in San Francisco this spring. The company will be operating out of 41,000 square feet in a space located in San Francisco’s China Basin neighborhood. By way of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry