By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Last year in September, during the Tokyo Game Show 2012, GREE (3632) took the wraps off “Project Fantasm:A”, a new first-party title with some pretty high-profile names behind it. GREE didn’t talk much about their “AAA” social game since but fast forward to today, and it’s...
Last month, Capcom (9697) announced a mobile spin-off of its popular action RPG Dragon’s Dogma for the Playstation Vita. Dubbed Dragon’s Dogma Quest, the game is scheduled for release later this year in the form of a F2P and online-only variation of the PlayStation 3 / Xbox 360 hit...
Just last week The Nikkei reported about sales and profit sliding significantly for GREE (3632) between April to June (ahead of the company’s official announcement of its financial results for that quarter). Back then, Japan’s biggest business publication reported that – as a...
The first Insert Coin! event will be held in Tokyo on Wednesday next week, and I was given the chance to hold a presentation about (what else) mobile games in Japan. Hiroki Omae, the Regional Director for Unity Japan, will also be speaking. Here are some links to Insert Coin! websites: Official...
New mobile gaming startups are a very rare sight these days in Japan, but earlier this week, a studio called “Alim” officially appeared on the scene. Based in Tokyo, the company actually registered in March already and just received investment from gumi Ventures, B-Dash Ventures, and...
The Nikkei has just reported online that things are starting to look better overseas for DeNA (2432): according to the Japanese business daily, the Mobage operator has seen sales in the US grow 600% year-on-year to US$90 million in the April-June quarter. Note: this number hasn’t been...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry