The first mobile game that officially overcame the bar of one billion dollars earned was a card butler with elements of Match-3 – Puzzle & Dragons.

BNDeNA, formed by DeNA and Namco Bandai in October 2011, will close this March. Cooperation between the two leaders of the Japanese market has not led to great results. 

Square Enix breaks traditions. The company published the sixth part of Final Fantasy on Google Play before the release on the App Store. 

President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime (Reggie Fils-Aime) announced that the company intends to conduct an experiment with mobile devices.

GREE has announced that F2P MMOG Knights & Dragons has made a profit of $5 million in 30 days. It took the project seven months to reach this figure.

In terms of revenue from mobile markets, the Country of the Rising Sun has overtaken the United States. This happened thanks to the rapid growth in the number of smartphones and tablets.

Japanese GungHo, which earns about $3.75 million a day on Puzzle & Dragons, announced an unusual initiative. 

Previously, King had already advertised his hit on American channels. Now the mobile giant is conquering Japanese television.

Japanese publisher Colopl announced that the number of total downloads of the company’s games amounted to 60 million, 40 million of which the company received over the past 9 months. 

Romantic games for girls (otome sim) are growing in popularity in the Land of the Rising Sun, EDGE reports.

Capcom will spend the proceeds from Monster Hunter 4 to create an internal mobile game development studio.

Butlers in the usual sense have come to an end, according to Japanese market analyst Serkan Toto. JRPGs come in their place. 

Financial difficulties forced GREE to stop developing 27 games, most of which were conducted by Japanese studios. Thus, the company lost $53 million.

The other day it became known about the purchase by Nintendo of part of the shares of Dwango Co, which distributes mobile content. After the transaction, the value of both companies increased.

Japanese gaming giant DeNA has launched a messenger that allows gamers to communicate with each other during games distributed within the Mobage platform. 

All studios of the Japanese Square Enix will develop mobile and online titles. 

LINE Corporation shared preliminary financial indicators for the 3rd quarter of the current fiscal year.

Along with the slowdown in the popularity of Puzzle & Dragons, GungHo sales began to fall. This does not frighten the Japanese company. She has already brought a new hit to the market.

One of the world’s largest messengers has announced plans to enter the stock market relatively soon.