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...
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...
The biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced its social baseball card game “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” hit 2.5 million users on January 8. The game was released on August 18, reached 1.5 million registered players on October 19, and 2 million on November 18...
Major Tokyo-based social game provider (and DeNA partner) gloops has announced the establishment of two offices outside Japan. The company is currently operating some very successful mobile social games on Mobage in Japan. gloops International is located in San Francisco, while the Vietnam office...
Every social gaming platform needs strong third-party developers, and the strongest of them all (on Mobage) is gloops – reason enough for DeNA to announce a strategic partnership with the Tokyo-based company today. Under the deal, DeNA and gloops will “mutually share social games...
Super-successful social game maker gloops has decided to translate to English and bring one of their hit titles on Mobage, Legend Cards, to Facebook for smartphones. It’s best if you open the link to the social card game on a phone: while the app opens on Facebook for the PC, too, it’s...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry