By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Here is a presentation I gave a few days ago in Tokyo on Japan’s social and mobile gaming industry. It’s dubbed “Social Games In Japan 2013: Status Quo, Trends And Internationalization”, and it covers exactly what the title suggests. (I need to add that nobody in the...
Mega-popular chat app LINE added 2 more titles to its game platform, namely Dragon Flight and Theater Town. Dragon Flight is a shooting game made by Korean game maker Nextfloor. The company released the title last year in English actually – without using LINE or any other platform. Touch...
Back in November 2012, mega-popular Korean chat app KakaoTalk opened its gaming platform inside the Japanese version, starting with three Android titles (Anipang, Tap Tap Blitz, and Puzzle Zoo Zoo). Today operator Kakao Japan, which is 50% owned by Yahoo Japan, expanded said platform to iOS and...
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...
This is getting weird: just 24 hours after entering a new partnership with GREE, Yahoo Japan announced today that it’s ready to strengthen the existing partnership with GREE’s arch enemy, Mobage operator DeNA. This “double play” (as Pocketgamer puts it) is not only a great...
I think that this week is the busiest in Japan’s social gaming industry since May this year (when the kompu gacha shock hit), there is just so much going on. Today’s big news: GREE announced a comprehensive business partnership with Yahoo Japan, the country’s (by far) biggest web...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry