By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
We’re still waiting for Mobage to hit the iOS platform in English, but DeNA China just rolled out that version, tech blog Penn Olson has learned. The Chinese iOS version is the first to follow the one DeNA rolled out for the Japanese market in August (Mobage on Android was released in China...
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...
It’s no secret anymore that Konami has landed a super hit with Dragon Collection, a fantasy card collection game, on GREE. Launched in September 2010, Dragon Collection is still the No. 1 social game on GREE (followed by two other Konami titles by the way). In fact, Dragon Collection has been...
When DeNA announced in December that Samsung will ship all of their future Android handsets worldwide with Mobage pre-installed, one country was excluded: Japan, DeNA’s home market. But now DeNA confirmed that Mobage will land on Samsung’s Android handsets distributed in Japan, too...
Here are just a few key points (there is a lot more): Internationalization: As even the Japanese social gaming market is limited, both DeNA and GREE have to internationalize quickly. DeNA has decided to take the M&A route, as can be clearly seen by them acquiring ngmoco for $400 million plus a...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry