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Jam City launches Disney Emoji Blitz in Japan after 30 million downloads worldwide News Apr 1st, 2020

Jam City launches Disney Emoji Blitz in Japan after 30 million downloads worldwide

""The appealing art style, cute emojis, and blitz style gameplay make Disney Emoji Blitz the perfect game for the Japanese market"

Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million News Mar 30th, 2020

Colopl acquires Steins;Gate creator Mages for $14.9 million

Bolstering the mobile publisher with a raft of niche IPs

ByteDance's Combat of Hero secures the most iOS downloads in Japan for four consecutive days News Mar 12th, 2020

ByteDance's Combat of Hero secures the most iOS downloads in Japan for four consecutive days

Was originally released in December 2019

Monster Hunter Riders storms to the top of the Japanese download chart Data & Research Mar 11th, 2020

Monster Hunter Riders storms to the top of the Japanese download chart

Crunching the data with App Annie

Shigeru Miyamoto talks working with Apple, Pokemon GO and why the Switch was helped by smartphones News Mar 6th, 2020

Shigeru Miyamoto talks working with Apple, Pokemon GO and why the Switch was helped by smartphones

Quotes taken from Japanese magazine Famitsu

Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures apply for two new trademarks in Japan News Feb 25th, 2020

Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures apply for two new trademarks in Japan

They translate to The Legendary Heartbeat and Amazing Rare

New Japanese publisher Phoenixx sets up shop in Tokyo News Feb 20th, 2020

New Japanese publisher Phoenixx sets up shop in Tokyo

It has five titles set for a 2020 release

Sega Sammy mobile revenues grow thanks to new Fist of the North Star release News Feb 5th, 2020

Sega Sammy mobile revenues grow thanks to new Fist of the North Star release

Fist of the North Star Legends ReVIVE and Sega Pocket Club Manager were the top grossing mobile games in Q3

DeNA game profits slump as Pokemon Masters and Mario Kart Tour fail to take off News Feb 5th, 2020

DeNA game profits slump as Pokemon Masters and Mario Kart Tour fail to take off

Posts overall loss of $460 million so far in FY2019

DeNA to shut down two of its games on March 31st News Feb 4th, 2020

DeNA to shut down two of its games on March 31st

Torikago Scrap Merch and Fantasy Earth Genesis both getting the boot

Sony's Fate/Grand Order accumulates over $4 billion in lifetime revenue News Jan 31st, 2020

Sony's Fate/Grand Order accumulates over $4 billion in lifetime revenue

Top grossing title in Japan for 2019

Unofficial Mario Kart experience ordered to pay $458,000 in damages to Nintendo News Jan 30th, 2020

Unofficial Mario Kart experience ordered to pay $458,000 in damages to Nintendo

Mari Mobility Development must pay five times originally cost

Square Enix and Suntory partner for Dragon Quest Walk missions via Japanese vending machines News Jan 28th, 2020

Square Enix and Suntory partner for Dragon Quest Walk missions via Japanese vending machines

14,000 can be found across the country

Nintendo Switch Lite passes 1 million sales in Japan News Jan 17th, 2020

Nintendo Switch Lite passes 1 million sales in Japan

Console launched in September 2019

Mobius Final Fantasy is being shut down after nearly five years News Jan 15th, 2020

Mobius Final Fantasy is being shut down after nearly five years

Western players get longer to see the end of the story

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