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Partnership brings games to Japan through DeNA's Mobage platform
Read More »Animal Crossing helps push 3DS sales past 10m in Japan
The popularity of Nintendo’s 3DS in Japan shows no signs of abating with the device having now sold over 10m units in the territory. The release of Animal Crossing: New Leaf helped the handheld to sales of over 400k units in the final week of December alone. The machine hits …
Read More »Nintendo 3DS shifts ten million units in Japan
Handheld reaches milestone after 98 weeks
Read More »Luminous engine remains exclusive to Square Enix
Final Fantasy developer has no plans to license its next-gen technology
Read More »Japanese PS2 production halted – the first step toward PS4?
Sony has stopped manufacturing the amazingly successful PS2 in Japan. The games console first went on sale in March 2000 in Japan and has since sold then more than 150 million units worldwide, and still holds the record for the best-selling home console of all time. Approximately 11,000 games are …
Read More »Sony ends PS2 production in Japan
Console giant ceases manufacturing of hardware in home nation only
Read More »TERA goes free-to-play in the Far East
Japanese and South Korean players get free access to fantasy MMO
Read More »Zynga Japan closes doors
Support to continue on card battle game Ayakashi but three other titles dropped
Read More »Zynga Japan office shutting down
Zynga will be closing its offices in Japan by the end of January, according to the company’s head of operations in the territory. Kenji Matsubara, CEO of Japan operations, took to Facebook to announce the news. Matusabara thanked users for playing the social and mobile company’s titles, and also revealed …
Read More »GREE to co-sponsor Japan’s 2020 Olympics bid
Social games giant GREE has been named as the co-sponsor of Japan’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. It will share sponsorship duties with Yahoo Japan. The drive will begin on December 26th with the first advertising hitting newspapers and public transport. GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka has also …
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