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.

Kabam has created a $50 million fund designed to help Japanese developers enter the Western market. Why is it an American company and Japanese developers, the editors of App2Top understood.

Two years after the change of course and the multimillion-dollar costs that followed, the Japanese gaming company DeNA announced that it was on its way to the first revenues from foreign markets.

A drop in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 2013 forced GREE to undertake restructuring. The OpenFeint team was the first to fall under the knife. 

The Japanese company DeNA has announced the conclusion of an agreement with the Japanese studio gloops. Within its framework, the studio is going to launch as many as 11 mobile projects on the Mobage platform in 2013.

The vice president of GREE, in his somewhat arrogant manner, told why social games are so successful in Japan, how a similar result can be achieved in the American market and what the mobile games market will be in three years.