By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Lord Of Vermillion, a collectible card game franchise launched by Square Enix in Japanese arcades in 2008, is going social. Square Enix is currently seeing good sales with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social game that’s not embedded in a social network. Like Diffusion, Lord Of Vermillion is...
Tokyo-based gumi is continuing to work on its plan to go global: after opening an office in South Korea this month, the biggest 3rd-party social game provider on GREE (and a GREE investee) just did the same in Singapore. gumi Asia, Pte ltd., was established on April 12 (two days after the Korea...
Tokyo-based gloops, the biggest third-party game provider on Mobage, announced that its social card battle game Magigate now has one million users on Mobage. The title was launched back in February and racked up 100,000 users in the first 7 hours. DeNA’s strategic partner gloops needed a total of...
How can you beat the current engineer crunch that’s slowing down growth in Japan and elsewhere? GREE thinks it can motivate young engineers by way of a global contest, which is dubbed “SamurAI Coding” and will kick off in July. In cooperation with Information Processing Society of...
14-year old CyberAgent is close to a radical transformation of one its main pillars of business, the Ameba platform. Over the years, Ameba has transformed itself from a pure blogging platform on PCs and feature phones to a cross-service platform (using a single log-in approach) and successfully...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba platform is becoming more and more popular. In their most recent financial report, the company has released some pretty interesting stats on how the blogging/social networking service grew over the last months in Japan. Monthly page views hit 36 billion in March –...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry