April 9th, 2013
Social games publisher Kabam has created a $50m fund to help Japanese game developers break into the North American and European markets. The Wall Street Journal reports the fund will help Japanese developers...
March 8th, 2013
Revenue growth for social networking apps has outpaced that of any other category over the last year according to App Annie's latest Index report. The analyst said that in January 2013 the Social Networking...
March 6th, 2013
Apple has revealed that its iBooks app has hit 130m downloads, as it launches the iBookstore in Japan. The app has reached the milestone in just over three years: it was first announced in January 2010...
February 22nd, 2013
People in Japan and China are “disproportionately heavy” users of productivity and utility apps compared to the rest of the world, according to a new report from Flurry that shows “systematic variation”...
February 19th, 2013
Mobile game Puzzles & Dragons could be making its creator GungHo up to $75m a month, according to the Japanese press. The game was released to the Japanese App Store in February 2012 and to Google Play...
February 19th, 2013
GREE and Yahoo Japan have created a new joint venture, GxYz, which will focus on social games for smartphones. The news follows a deal between the two companies in November last year to develop a business...
October 8th, 2012
The global roll out of Amazon’s Android Appstore continues apace, with the Japanese arm set to open later this year. Amazon has invited developers to submit their apps for the store, which it called...
October 2nd, 2012
If you thought the era of big-bucks mobile games acquisitions ended with Zynga and Draw Something, think again. Korean games publisher Nexon has bought a Japanese mobile developer called Gloops for a whopping...
September 13th, 2012
Zynga is bringing the first two games from its Japanese development studio, card-battling titles Montopia and Ayakashi: Ghost Guild, to western markets. Montopia, which combines battle role-playing games...
