By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
This is a critical title for GREE: Konami just released Metal Gear Solid Social Ops, the first social game in the Metal Gear franchise, on the platform. Both GREE and Konami announced the Unity 3D game during a special event in Japan at the end of August. I then had the chance to play an early...
Japan’s hit chat app LINE (80 million users worldwide and counting) continues to amaze. Maker NHN Japan announced that puzzle game LINE Pop hit 10 million downloads on iOS and Android – in just 12 days. The title was released on November 20, along with a few other apps using the LINE...
Think what you want about Rage Of Bahamut, but there is something about the game that gets people excited. (The best analysis out there in English is provided by Frenzoo CEO Simon Newstead over on his personal blog – a must read.) Rage Of Bahamut maker Cygames just announced that the Korean...
GREE started accepted pre-registrations for Medal Of Monsters, their next first-party social game, in Japan yesterday. What’s interesting is that GREE is marketing the title as a mix between a so-called “medal game” and “board game”. The goal is to fire medals at...
Japanese chat app sensation LINE (75 million users and counting) has done the inevitable: it started integrating with Facebook. Maker NHN Japan says that while the Facebook connection went live on Android first, LINE users on iOS can expect the same feature in the near future. The main bullet...
Mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk (66 million users worldwide) has opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with 3 titles. The roll-out in Japan is part of a “global” release maker Kakao announced a few days ago. Games available on KakaoTalk in its native...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry