By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based Cygames, a 100% subsidiary of Japanese web powerhouse Cyberagent, is on a roll. The company behind social game mega-hit Rage Of Bahamut announced it has registered its 10 millionth user on July 14. Cygames, which is barely a year old (established in May 2011), currently employs 262...
Rage Of Bahamut continues to do well outside Japan: the social card battle game, developed by Tokyo-based Cyberagent company Cygames, hit 2 million downloads outside this country on July 10. The title was released on Mobage for Android by DeNA/ngmoco in late February this year. Rage Of Bahamut hit...
Rage of Bahamut, the social card battle game offered through Mobage‘s international network, has proven to be a smash hit – and a money printing machine. It’s not known how successful exactly (from a financial perspective) the game is, but there are a few pointers that lead to a...
DeNA can be happy: Rage of Bahamut, developed by Tokyo-based Cygames, was, for a short period of time, the top grossing app on both the App Store and Google Play in the US. After becoming a hit in Japan, the social card battle game was released on Mobage for Android in February this year. Rage of...
One key success factor for the rise of social gaming in Japan are the big investments in TV promotion the two big platform providers, GREE and DeNA, have been making in past years. If you live in Japan and watch a random national TV program for a few minutes, it’s almost impossible not to see...
Think what you want about Rage Of Bahamut, but there is something about the game that gets people excited. (The best analysis out there in English is provided by Frenzoo CEO Simon Newstead over on his personal blog – a must read.) Rage Of Bahamut maker Cygames just announced that the Korean...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry