By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nobody can be really surprised about this, but I myself have been wondering why Japan’s big telcos keep refusing to enter the country’s big social gaming market for years, especially as all three are aggressively moving from data and voice to content sales. But today the local mobile...
When NHN Japan announced its plan to turn messenger app LINE into a platform on July 3, the company showed a list of 3rd-party game providers that are ready to offer smartphone titles linked with the app. Apart from NHN itself, these are the developers: Square Enix Konami Taito Alfa System (a video...
NHN Japan, the Tokyo-based subsidiary of Korean web powerhouse NHN, gave a big press conference today, and it seems the company is betting high on LINE, its super-successful messenger app. VERY high. Here is a summary of what was unveiled today. Updated stats About 4 weeks ago, NHN said that LINE...
CyberAgent finally rolled out its long awaited social gaming network, which is directly positioned against GREE and DeNA‘s Mobage on the Japanese market. The network, which has no distinct brand name, is the biggest competitor GREE and Mobage are seeing since Mixi opened its site to game...
14-year old CyberAgent is close to a radical transformation of one its main pillars of business, the Ameba platform. Over the years, Ameba has transformed itself from a pure blogging platform on PCs and feature phones to a cross-service platform (using a single log-in approach) and successfully...
Mobage and GREE may have well over 25 million users in Japan each, but that doesn’t stop Forif to try to become another mobile social gaming platform provider in the country. The Tokyo-based company, which was established in 2007, just launched a mobile social gaming service called Joynt...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry