Puzzle & Dragons is making $3.75M a day Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 13, 2013 1 min Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo is growing at an unbelievable rate and has $15.1 billion on hand. Continue Reading 1 min
Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 26, 2013 11 min With 450 people at its U.S. headquarters, Japan's Gree is chasing after the giant mobile game. Continue Reading 11 min
GungHo brings its $2.5M-a-day mobile game Puzzle & Dragons to 3DS Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 12, 2013 1 min Puzzle & Dragons Z brings the puzzle-RPG to a traditional portable device for the first time. Continue Reading 1 min
Kabam’s new $50M fund helps Japanese mobile games head West Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 8, 2013 1 min Kabam will take a piece of revenue in exchange for localizing, marketing, and distributing Japanese games in U.S. and Europe. Continue Reading 1 min
DeNA’s first-person shooter The Drowning nears launch on the iPad (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 5, 2013 14 min The launch of The Drowning, a novel first-person shooter on the iPad, is drawing near. Continue Reading 14 min
How GungHo Online Entertainment created Puzzle & Dragons, the surprise billion-dollar mobile game Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 4, 2013 10 min The company's hit game is on its way to $1 billion in revenue, and its market value is bigger than Zynga's. Continue Reading 10 min
The DeanBeat: Will Battlefield 4 or Puzzle & Dragons reach $1B in revenues? Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 29, 2013 4 min Puzzle & Dragons is generating $2.5 million in revenue a day. Continue Reading 4 min
Japanese telecom buys majority stake in Puzzle & Dragons developer GungHo Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 27, 2013 1 min SoftBank dropped $265 million to take 58.5 percent of GungHo Entertainment. Continue Reading 1 min
App Annie reveals massive success for GungHo’s Puzzle & Dragons Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 26, 2013 1 min Despite fewer recent downloads, Puzzle & Dragons is one of the highest-grossing iOS and Android games. Continue Reading 1 min
What U.S. developers can glean from Asia’s mobile apps market Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 9, 2013 4 min Asia’s mobile apps market can teach us a lot. At the close of last year, the Pew Research Center found that 87 percent of... Continue Reading 4 min