The mobile social gaming network Mobage, the offspring of DeNA and ngmoco, has finally launched in Japan on April 26 on iOS and Android. Mobage has 20 million users from ngmoco and 25 million users from DeNA, bringing its total starting userbase to over 45 million players. Currently Mobage is in talks with major cell phone manufacturers to OEM its app on their devices.
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EA Games has entered into a co-development agreement with Japanese game developer Cave to make games for Japanese mobile social gaming market. Cave has been known in the western world for its Mushihimesama Bug Panic, a bullet hell iOS shooting game.
DeNA, Japan’s social gaming giant, is reporting that it expects to rack in $1.3 billion in revenues for the fiscal year ending March 31. Apart from the expectations, the figures that we already know for sure, show a revenue of $359 million for the Q4 2010, with earnings increasing by more than 250 percent over the same time last year.
DeNA, Japan’s top mobile social gaming service, has announced that it will be entering the burgeoning Chinese gaming market in Feb, 2011. DeNA will be launching a gaming platform similar to its “Mobage Open Platform” in China through its subsidiary DeNA China Network Technology Company.
DeNA, the mobile gaming powerhouse in Japan, is taking an aggressive approach towards the gaming seen and is announcing the release MiniNation on the iPhone App Store. We recently discussed DeNA as they reported a record fiscal year earning $205 million and disclosed their plans to establish a stronger American presence. MiniNation is a smart move that will solidify DeNA’s expansion beyond the home market into the global arena.
