The Tokyo-based company Colopl recently celebrated two achievements. Firstly, the firm managed to overtake DeNA in terms of market capitalization, reaching an estimate of $3.4 billion. Secondly, it has increased the base of the Wizard & Wiz the Black Cat role-playing game to 10 million people, as analyst Serkan Toto writes in his blog.

Immediately after Softbank and GungHo acquired a controlling stake in Supercell, Apple began promoting Hay Day in the Japanese store on the main page. 

Does Kakao’s support increase box office figures in South Korea? App2Top was being analyzed, inspired by the Pocket Gamer material. 

Last week, it became known about the plans of the Japanese company Square Enix to transfer eight parts of Dragon Quest to a mobile platform. Yesterday, the first details about one of the future releases appeared.

Japanese telecommunications company Softbank has acquired a 51% stake in Supercell for a huge sum of $ 1.5 billion.

Almost a year after the first vague hints about the possible appearance of Final Fantasy VI on mobile platforms, Square Enix confirmed the development of the game for iOS and Android.

The first eight parts of the famous Dragon Quest role-playing series, also known in the USA as Dragon Warrior, will appear on mobile devices. This became known yesterday according to official representatives of Square Enix.

What is PuzDra Shock, why did the Japanese start developing native applications, and DeNA and GREE are no longer the main ones in the market of games of the Land of the Rising Sun? 

The largest Japanese studio GREE, engaged in mobile and social games, laid off 11% of its employees. This is reported by the blog Dr. Serkan Toto, which is led by a German analyst living in Tokyo.

A credit card linked to the Mobage gaming platform has appeared in Japan. 

Electronic Arts is trying to conquer the Japanese market with the help of role-playing tetris, looking back at the experience of GungHo. 

The Japanese company Square Enix is preparing to release the Final Fantasy Agito freeplay on mobile devices. 

The domestic company Alawar recently announced the imminent release of its Shake Spears game! as part of the Japanese social platform LINE.

15 Japanese companies They are creating a single platform for cross-promotion, The Nikkei business newspaper reports.

Facebook’s mobile MAU in Japan has reached the 18 million mark. A good reason is not to forget about the important role of the service in the mobile application market.

Mobile Content Forum estimated the Japanese mobile content market at $8.8 billion last year, of which $5.1 billion was for games for mobile devices. 

In the wake of the box office success of Match-3, EA decided to invest in the development of its main casual IP – in Tetris.

A small sensation: the Finnish project has grown to the third position in the box office top of Japanese applications on the iPhone.

Clash of Clans, the main box office hit of this year in the US and European markets, managed to enter the top ten on the Japanese App Store. Puzzle & Dragons helped.