By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mobage operator DeNA (2432) and Tokyo-based mobile game maker gloops (aquired by Nexon (3659) last October) have announced their first co-developed title. The RPG, which is dubbed Dragon Eclipse and looks very promising, is the first game to come out of the DeNA-gloops partnership that was...
I have mentioned it multiple times in the past: the App Store and Google Play will see a flood of made-in-Japan card battle games in the next few weeks and months. Rage Of Bahamut, Dragon Collection, Deity Wars, Driland, or Dark Summoner were just the beginning. Now Tokyo-based (and listed) social...
Nice win for Konami: Sengoku Collection, a social card game Konami published on Mobage in December last year, will be turned into an anime series on Japanese TV from spring 2012. In the fantasy game, players need to collect cards to become a shogun in medieval Japan (there are currently over 600...
Canceled games, ousted star designers, exposed (bad) work conditions: Konami (9766) has not really been producing good news since it announced restructuring efforts around spring this year. And in about two weeks, starting from September 10, Konami Digital Entertainment will close a total of 31...
As I have mentioned earlier, Japan is the only country in the world where mobile games are regularly being advertised on television. And this isn’t about cheap night time slots in niche TV programs no one watches: DeNA, GREE, GungHo, and many other developers are paying for spots aired during...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry