App Annie: 2,857 iOS apps make over $1 million a year
Ten years after Apple launched the App Store, the exclusive iOS software shop is continuing to grow at a rapid clip, app analytics and market...
Dragon Quest VR game will hit Japan’s VR Zone Shinjuku in late April
A virtual reality version of Japan’s hit role-playing game franchise Dragon Quest will debut this month at VR Zone Shinjuku in Japan, Bandai Namco...
Why Japanese mobile sensation Monster Strike failed in North America
Mixi Inc.’s Monster Strike is a mobile juggernaut in Japan. It frequently ranks among the top-grossing mobile apps on both Android and iOS, boasts...
How Capcom juggles global game development with third-party studios
Peter Fabiano has worked at Capcom for nine years, helping the company to grow its external development in places like Canada, where the Japanese...
Capcom aims to keep women employees by improving benefits for new mothers
Men dominate Japanese game development, but at least one publisher is getting proactive about altering that stereotype. Street Fighter publisher Capcom released an annual...
Nintendo acquires Jesnet to control how its products reach Japanese consumers
Nintendo is taking more control of the retail side of the supply chain in Japan. The Mario publisher revealed that it is acquiring the...
Whomor, Japan’s crowdsourced comic studio, raises $1.6M from Digital Garage
(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Whomor, the Japanese company offering a crowdsourcing platform focused on illustrations and 3D computer graphics, unveiled today that it has...
Japan’s top-grossing mobile game Monster Strike pulled from Apple’s App Store (Update: back up)
Update, 9 a.m. Pacific on Sunday, August 30: The game appears to be back on Apple’s App Store. Toto told VentureBeat he estimates the losses for Mixi...
Square Enix needs to give Dragon Quest XI a chance in the West
Dragon Quest XI can bring back old-school Japanese role-playing games in a big way, but Square Enix first needs to give it a chance...
Japanese role-playing game studio Imageepoch has gone bankrupt — but its latest game is still coming out
Japanese game developer Imageepoch and affiliate company Smile Online Games have begun bankruptcy procedures in Tokyo this week following a stretch of declining sales. Research provider Teikoku Databank reports (via Siliconera) that Imageepoch has a debt of $9.2 million (1.1 billion yen) owed to 43 different creditors.