This New Game Combines Wayang Robot Battles with Indonesian Folklore
We’ve seen quite a few Indonesian-made games recently, and this mobile browser-based game made by Depok game developer Tanoshii Studio is ...
Posts Tagged: social gaming
DeNA Starts Integrating Casino Games Into its Chat App Comm
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is re...
Game On: KakaoTalk Brings Social Gaming Platform to Indonesia and Vietnam
After months of testing it out in South Korea and Japan, the messaging app KakaoTalk is today launching its social gaming platform for users...
Kabam Launches $50 Million Fund to Bring Japanese Games to the West
California-based game studio Kabam has set up a $50 million fund aimed at getting Japanese games into the Western markets of Europe and the ...
Social Games and Gaming Trends in Japan (Slideshare Presentation)
When Dr. Serkan Toto says something about Japan’s social gaming scene, we tend to listen, because he’s an expert with years of e...
Got Game: Japan’s NTT Docomo to Launch ‘D Game’ Portal Tomorrow with China Mobile
Japan’s NTT Docomo (NYSE:DCM) is buddying up with another giant telco, China Mobile (NYSE:CHL; HKG:0941), to bring its mobile gaming porta...
NHN Japan Focuses on its Chat App With “Line Corp” Spin-Off Company
Regular readers will know that the messaging app Line now has over 100 million registered users. That makes it hugely important to its maker...
Friendster Gives Dating Another Try
Earlier this month, Malaysian based social-network-turned-social–gaming-website Friendster.com launched new dating features, allowing peop...
China’s Top 6 Online Gaming Companies Pulled in Over $2 Billion in Q1
Now that everyone has posted their first quarter financials for this year we can see how much China’s web giants are making out of gam...
Next Version of WeChat Rumored to Have Mobile Payments and Paid Publishing Platform
We know that Tencent (HKG:0700) is working on a social gaming platform for WeChat, its popular social messaging app, but what else is in the...
A Sneak Peek at Some Games on WeChat’s Social Gaming Platform
As confirmed by Tencent (HKG:0700) during its most recent earnings call, a WeChat social gaming platform is in the works. Now leaked picture...
Japan’s Video Game Market Grows to $4.6 Billion in 2012 (But Social Games Not Too Far Off)
Dr. Serkan Toto is a gaming expert and independent consultant based in Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter and his blog. This article is re...
SoftBank to Take Majority Stake In ‘Puzzle and Dragons’ Maker GungHo
With the investment, the telco’s stake in the Puzzle and Dragons game maker increases from 33.6 to 58.5 percent.
Yahoo Japan and GREE Invest $2 Million to Open Social Gaming Joint-Venture Next Month
Yahoo Japan and GREE (TYO:3632) announced today what they had teased a few months back – the launch of a joint-venture company that wi...
KakaoTalk Launches Social Gaming Platform on iOS and in Japan
Korean-made messaging app KakaoTalk launched its Game Platform on Android in its home country last July – and today that social gaming...
The Rise and Fall of China’s First Hit Social Game (The One Zynga Ripped Off as FarmVille)
Remember FarmVille, the social game that put Zynga on the map? That was pretty much ripped off from a Chinese game named Happy Farm, made by...
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