By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
This is probably one of the biggest wins (content-wise) for DeNA in recent months: Sega is planning to bring one of the biggest brands for role-playing games out there, Phantasy Star, to Mobage. Dubbed Phantasy Star Eternal Hunters, the social game was exclusively developed for Mobage for Japanese...
GREE just announced that it gets another hit console game: Sega has decided to port Puyo Puyo, a classic puzzle to GREE for smartphones, namely as apps for the iPhone and Android. Dubbed “Puyo Puyo Fever Touch for GREE”, the game will contain only mild social elements, for example...
GREE today announced the launch of a new potential hit game: “Ryuu Ga Gotoku Mobile” is the name of the social game version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku, a famous action-adventure series that started in 2005 on the Sony PS2. The video game version is known as “Yakuza” in the US and...
Major Japanese video game maker Sega is planning to jump on the lucrative social gaming bandwagon. Sega has already launched a game called “Sega Play Baseball” on Facebook this month and plans to offer another title called “Sega Play! Football” on social gaming site hi5 in...
Generally speaking, Japan has always been a tough nut to crack for Western mobile game developers: In my experience of over 15 years working in this business, only China is more difficult to enter. But there is also a handful of European and American companies that are very successful in this...
I was recently interviewed by Joseph Kim (who runs GameMakers and is also the CEO of mobile game studio Lila Games), Brian Peganoff (founder at Timber Advisors) and Matthew Kanterman (Director Of Research at Roundhill Investments) on the Japanese gaming market – with an extra dash of Korean...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry