Gree helps IUGO’s Knights and Dragons game hit $1M in monthly revenue

Japan’s Gree announced today that Knights & Dragons, a game that it published for IUGO Mobile Entertainment, has surpassed $1 million in monthly revenue. That’s not a gigantic number by game standards, but it shows that Gree’s hands-on form of publishing mobile games for third-party partners is working.

Game publishers have been criticized for failing to provide mobile developers with enough services to justify taking a big cut of revenues. The publishers fail to add much value because they simply take a mobile title from a developer and publish on their mobile game network with little advertising or efforts. Then they sit back and see if the title goes anywhere. If it doesn’t, then the publisher cuts its losses and lets it sink.