DeNA has not yet given up messaging apps

After a hit of LINE, the many Japanese companies released messaging apps, but they were not able to win in LINE.

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Does messaging application comm of DeNA go the way same as LINE?

DeNA was those one company. They released messaging apps Comm, but there is not the popularity at all for the moment. Therefore DeNA released newer messaging apps "Mobage Chat".

What is the difference between Comm and Mobage Chat? DeNA explains that a message function of Mobage becomes the basis in Mobage Chat. Comm was a real name system and different from Mobage. On the other hand, Mobage Chat is service for users playing various social games in Mobage.Mobage users can communicate with other users in Mobage Chat while logging in to a game. Furthermore, there are chat rooms and the stickers of every game, too. So to speak, Mobage Chat is messaging apps for social game users.

By the way, hit games do not appear from Mobage recently and according to their settlement of accounts, the business results of DeNA fall. Will Mobage Chat help them?

News Flash:Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with Angry Birds

Japan's GungHo seems to be considerably interested in a Finnish mobile game market. According to the blog of Rovio, Japanese mobile game Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with Angry Birds. Well, it's their usual "Cross-Collaboration". The Angry Birds themed limited-time dungeon will be available in Puzzle & Dragons from November 18th - December 1st.

I think this to be a good opportunity and timing. Puzzle & Dragons is popular so as to break through 20 million downloading in Japan. However, in abroad, there is not the popularity like Japan. In addition, the growth rate in Japan is slowing down, too. Probably tens of millions of downloading are limits in a Japanese market of a population of 120 million people. On the other hand, unfortunately Angry Birds does not have popularity in Japan. The ranking is low and the goods do not sell, too (About the goods, probably because there are too many rivals in Japan. Like a LINE characters and Nameko). This Cross-Collaboration is carried out in global. This will be a good chance raising each other's recognition.

By the way, it is the second time that Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with a Finnish mobile game.

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Big tie-up: Japan's GungHo cooperates with Finland's Supercell by each other's games

After this, what happened to Supercell? Current Masayoshi Son can really carry it out.

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GungHo's popular mobile game Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with BAT MAN

GungHo announced that they cooperated with BAT MAN of the Warner Bros.' super hero in Puzzle & Dragons. This is carried out in a global region as well as Japanese region.

This is performed in commemoration of release of "Batman: Arkham Origins" and "Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate". It is the second in this that Puzzle & Dragons cooperates with overseas contents in a global region (The first was Supercell's Clash of Clan).

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Big tie-up: Japan's GungHo cooperates with Finland's Supercell by each other's games

A tie-up period is from October 30 to November 13. During this period, tie-up dungeon and tie-up Gacha appear in Puzzle & Dragons, and Characters of BAT MAN are arranged by GungHo-style. A tie-up page is here(Jp).

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Finnish mobile games attack the Japanese market, even in LINE GAME

Recently, I see many articles of Finnish game & IT industries in the Japanese Web media. Is it influence of SoftBank and Supercell? Anyway, the attention degree to Finland rises in the Japanese Tech industry. Possibly LINE aimed at this timing. They released action game "LINE Dongurissu" in their mobile game platform LINE GAME.

Well, this is This is LINE version of "Noble Nutlings" which Finnish startup Boomlagoon developed. LINE released only Japanese and Korean mobile games until now. This is the first time that they release a European game. What does Dongurissu mean? It's a Japanese coined word. "Donguri" means an acorn and "Risu" means a squirrel in Japanese.

What is different from an original? At first, all the texts are Japanese. They are not literal translations, and expressed with slang only by Japanese. they are natural and comical.

Furthermore, there are a lot of charging items and the play number of times per once is limited by five times. Okay, it's charging! The Japanese is used to charging from mobile. So, this is an effective method.
They are going to release the LINE ticker in future. This is one of the popular sources of LINE.

Son brothers conquered the Finnish and Japanese mobile game industry

Many articles had been already written, Japanese mobile company SoftBank  and game company GungHo purchased Finnish mobile game company Supercell. SoftBank became the mobile game company which made money world's most. Does Japanese money flow into Finland? Does Finnish money flow into Japan? and does this purchase change Supercell? Nobody yet understands them. However, there is an important point. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and GungHo chairperson Taizo Son are brothers. In other words the Son brothers would conquer Finnish and Japanese mobile game industry. What a powerful brothers!

By the way, Supercell's mobile agriculture game Hay Day started Japanese support at once.

I don't know whether it is accidental, GungHo's subsidiary Acquire added Finnish character in their new game for PS3/VS Vita "AKIBA 'S TRIP2". Her name is Kati Räikkönen. She is foreign students and works part-time at a maid cafe in Akihabara.



These were announced on the same day.

When we look back on past business style of SoftBank and GungHo, some kind of cross-collaborations are carried out from now on.