For 6 months of 2017, the market of consoles and console video games in Japan increased by 14.8% to $1.35 billion. Growth in this segment was marked for the first time in three years, according to the publication Famitsu.

Japan spends a lot on mobile games. However, success is far from guaranteed for Western developers in this country,” says Serkan Toto, an analyst at Kantan Games studio.

Japanese companies LINE and Gree have signed an agreement. They will create a division of Epic Voyage, Inc., which will promote mobile games on the LINE messenger platform.

The number of Puzzle & Dragons users continues to grow, but this applies only to Japan. Its downloads in the US do not show significant results, and revenues are falling. 

It took only 19 days for the Japanese mobile super hit Puzzle & Dragons to increase the number of its users by another 1 million and thus reach the milestone of 10 million.

Aggressive advertising on Japanese television helped GungHo’s game achieve record revenue figures, according to analyst Serkan Toto. 

Mail.ru Games has announced the launch of its mobile games in Asian markets. GREE will act as one of the Japanese partners of the Russian giant.

Yesterday came the news about the acquisition by the Japanese social giant GREE of the Pokelabo game studio. 

The era of the Japanese console games industry is coming to an end. There are fewer and fewer developers in this market who create successful projects,” says Yoshiki Okamoto, founder of Game Republic. Everyone goes into mobile development.