June 14th, 2012
Will hardcore Japanese card-battling games take off among Western smartphone owners? DeNA is trumpeting the fact that its Rage of Bahamut has been topping the Top Grossing charts on both iOS and Android...
May 10th, 2012
The day after Japanese social mobile games firm GREE reported $560m of revenues and $162m of net profit for the first quarter of 2012, its fierce rival DeNA has reported its own figures. DeNA generated...
May 8th, 2012
There may be trouble ahead for the two giants of Japanese social mobile gaming – DeNA and GREE. The Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency is investigating so-called ‘kompu gacha’ games, which...
April 2nd, 2012
Japanese social mobile games publisher DeNA has inked perhaps its most high-profile partnership yet – with Disney. The two companies is launching two titles in Japan based on Disney IP, and another...
March 20th, 2012
Will Zynga buy OMGPOP for $200m just to get its hands on current app craze Draw Something? That’s what TechCrunch and GigaOm are separately suggesting. Cynics may wonder why Zynga would buy rather...
March 20th, 2012
Neil Young sold his ngmoco games publisher to Japanese social games firm DeNA, and is now in charge of bringing the latter’s Mobage community to the West. How’s it doing? “Pretty good,”...
March 5th, 2012
Japanese social games firm DeNA took its Mobage community global last year, starting on Android with its own app, and a bunch of partners. Now it’s quietly crossed over to iPhone with the launch...
February 8th, 2012
Japanese mobile social gaming company DeNA has reported its latest quarterly financials, revealing revenues up 16% to $445m for its fiscal third quarter, which ended on 31 December. The company’s...
December 1st, 2011
Inside Mobile Apps has a marvellous rumour today that mobile game advertising company Tapjoy is “actively exploring a sale”, with potential suitors thought to include social games publishers...
