By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here is an updated calendar of major native apps that publicly traded Japanese mobile game makers have announced for the coming months. Please note that games can be modified, canceled, or released by these companies at any given time. The list isn’t necessarily exhaustive, as sometimes...
Capcom today announced that its subsidiary Beeline Interactive is working on a mobile social game based on the Ghostbusters movies. The company says the title “aims to increase communications among families by using a social game that incorporates a popular movie”. Apparently, the goal...
Capcom released their financial report for Q1 FY2012 (April to June 2012) today, and things are looking pretty good. All key numbers increased sharply, i.e. the operating profit (up 240% to 2.6 billion yen/US$33.3 billion) or net income, which is about four times higher at now US$12.6 million...
Capcom issued their financial report for fiscal 2011 yesterday, and the company is making it clear it sees its future in two areas: online and social games. I have heard that before. All IR material can be downloaded in English from here. Things aren’t looking too rosy overall: Here are the...
Capcom released their financial results for the first nine months of the current fiscal year, and in a nutshell, things aren’t looking too good. For the nine-month period through December 31, sales dropped by a whopping 29% to US$657 million year-on-year. In the same time frame, operating...
Video game maker Capcom has posted the financial results for the second half of this fiscal year (March to September), and the company focuses heavily on its social gaming segment. Things don’t look too well for Capcom as a whole, as can be seen here: But the company also said that: downloads...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry