By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
If you ever wondered which pages on Facebook in Japan have the most fans, head over to Facebook JapanInside, an unofficial site that tracks exactly that kind of statistics (among other things). The site is in Japanese, but just follow this link for an up-to-date ranking of Facebook pages in Japan...
GREE today announced they have inked a deal with Korean gaming company COM2US to release Homerun Battle 3D on GREE for smartphones. Next month, GREE will release the baseball game as a native app for GREE on the iPhone (it became available on the Android Market today). What’s interesting is...
The Tokyo office of American social gaming juggernaut RockYou, RockYou Asia, has released Speed Racing 2 on Mobage for Japanese feature phones today. Part 1 of the social racing game boasts over 10 million players on various platforms worldwide (1 million on the PC in Japan). Speed Racing 2...
“Persona 3 Social”, the first social game in the famous RPG series Persona, was released back in August 2010 for Mobage, before publisher Index started offering the title on GREE for feature phones and Yahoo Mobage. And now Index released the game for GREE on smartphones (Persona 3...
Yet another video game is going social: For Japanese feature phones, Sega actually rolled out the GREE version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), a famous action-adventure series, back in February. And today GREE finally announced the iPhone version of Yakuza, which can be started directly from the iPhone...
Yet another big console title has landed on a mobile social gaming platform: this time, it’s Bust A Move (aka “Puzzle Bobble”), a puzzle game from Taito (and one of my favorite games ever). The title (announced today and dubbed “New Puzzle Bobble Lite for GREE”) is a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry