By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Konami released Daifugo Monsters on dgame earlier this week, NTT Docomo’s new cross-device platform for mobile social games (whose launch turned quite a few heads last month). Gameplay is based on Daifugo, a Japanese card game that’s known as President (and under other names) in other...
Konami is (again) linking a social game with an arcade title: the company has released a social game called Hunter Chronicle which works in conjunction with Steel Chronicle, an action game released in Japanese arcades last year. Konami explains: Its counterpart, “HUNTER CHRONICLE,” is a...
Fired up by healthy sales numbers last quarter, Konami is continuing to churn out social games: the company announced BE-BOP-HIGHSCHOOL for Mobage on feature phones (official website). The new title is based on a Japanese high school manga from the 1980s – and it’s yet another social...
One of the biggest third-party game providers on Mobage, Tokyo-based gloops, announced that its social baseball card game on Mobage has hit 2 million registered users on November 18. “Dainekkyo!! Pro Yakyu Card” was released on August 18, meaning the game took 93 days to reach that milestone...
Are DeNA and Konami getting friendlier with each other? After releasing GREE top hit Professional Baseball Nine on Mobage, Konami now launched another social game on the DeNA platform. Busou Shinki BATTLE Communication is a social RPG set in the near future. Players have to clear missions, level up...
The arcade game business is way past its prime in Japan, too, but some there are still quite a few arcades and some big name makers keep making machines for them. One of these makers is Konami: the company is planning to launch “BASEBALL HEROES 2011 SHINE STAR”, a so-called...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry