By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
It’s no secret that DeNA’s self-developed hit social game Kaitou Royal is the company’s main money maker. Now DeNA is planning to further monetize the Mobage title by turning it into a serialized manga and novel. DeNA has already started publishing the digital versions of the...
The biggest hit title on DeNA’s social gaming platform Mobage-town (Mobage) is Kaitou Royal. It’s rumored that this one game accounts for a big chunk of DeNA’s revenue and profits. Now TechCrunch Japan editor Ryuichi Nishida is reporting on Twitter that Takeshi Otsuka, the master...
DeNA has quietly shut down a total of five games on the Mobage platform in Japan recently, offering players who have purchased (but not yet used) virtual currency for the titles reimbursements. The list news site Social Game Info released today includes a few big titles, especially the first two:...
I put together the following article for Social Casino Intelligence, the biggest publication covering the global social casino industry. The link to the online version of the original piece is here. The US$5 billion social gaming market in Japan is unique in many ways, but one of the most striking...
It has become quiet about Yahoo-Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform Yahoo Japan (the country’s biggest website) and DeNA launched in October 2010, in recent months. But now Yahoo Japan, on its company blog, says that the platform has reached the 7 million registered user mark. It took...
Today is a big day for DeNA: after rolling out the awesome-looking Infinity Blade Cross on Mobage for Japanese iPhones, the company just announced the launch of Daum Mobage in South Korea. The partnership with Daum, one of Korea’s biggest web portals, was announced last November. The plan is...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry