Financial Roundup
Snapshot of Japanese mobile game company financials
Marking mobile gamings winners and losers
Company Profile
DeNA
Website
www.dena.jp
About
An innovator in the mobile and internet space, DeNA connects millions of people in Japan. Its product Mobage-town is the fastest-growing virtual social networking service, driven by high quality free-of-charge games.
Related People
Tom Hess
Executive Producer
Tomoko Namba
Chairman
Barry Dorf
VP, Partnerships and Alliances
Isao Moriyasu
President and CEO
Jennie Sue
Producer
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Tough Times
DeNA still in transition with FY14 Q3 revenues down 4%
But coin sales on the up
DeNA drops Mobage branding
Simplifies its approach
Video
DeNA on why western best practices don't work in Asia
Kenji Kobayashi on acting local
Chart Of The Week
Chart of the Week: How GungHo stole the Japanese mobile game industry from DeNA and GREE
Times they are a'changing
Chart Of The Week
How historic success and games-as-a-service expertise is keeping DeNA profitable
Rage of Bahamut etc still doing great business
Financials
DeNA's platform approach hits global competition with FY14 Q1 revenue down 37% to $278 million
International business drops 50%
Interview
Kamcord raises $7.1 million to drive discovery through gameplay videos
Record, share, download and play
Ben Cousins leaves DeNA to become free-to-play consultant
Ready to go solo
Big In Japan
More Mana and Saga games coming to mobile
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Diary Of A Promiscuous Gamer
Week of the Big Uninstall
This guy will play anything as long as it's free
The Global View
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2014
The shakers, makers and movers
Deeper Relationship
DeNA looks to widen its UA net with Zedge hook up
Connecting valuable users to interesting games
Mobage levers platform-wide approach with 100,000 MobaCoin giveaway
Boosting Facebook presence in the process
Nintendo, Sony, EA and Ouya all bound for Game Connection America 2014
Hitting San Francisco this March
Big in Japan: Square Enix and GungHo talk up new titles, while DeNA looks to Clash of Clans
Weekly digest from Tokyo
Big in Japan: DeNA dives, Drecom stabilises and GungHo booms
Weekly digest from Tokyo
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Flappy Bird causes a flap, Dungeon Keeper creates a stir, and Puzzle & Dragons tops $1 billion
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
"NaturalMotion deal isn't symbolic. It's an accelerator for Zynga."
COO Clive Downie predicts 50% of 2014 revenue will be from mobile
Opinion: Forget the cash. Zynga's NaturalMotion deal is much bigger than Supercell-SoftBank-GungHo
Can CSR drive Zynga back into the fast lane?
PocketGamer.biz Week That Was: Phablets explode, PlayRaven raises $2.3M, Linekong raises $80M, and lessons learned from PG Connects
The past 7 days in bite-sized portions
It's over: DeNA and Namco Bandai announce joint venture split
BNDeNA partnership ending in March
Monetizer Special: 8 games with very weird IAP economies
Some clever and some stupid decisions revealed
Monetizer Special: IAP economic trends during 2013
Consolidation around de facto standards
PocketGamer.biz's The Year That Was: Big publishers lock down the App Store, microconsoles fail to impress, and all eyes look east
The past 365 days in bite-sized portions
Crytek goes F2P, partners with DeNA to launch The Collectables
Distribution through Mobage platform
Financial News
Japan declines but DeNA sees H1 FY13 sales up 2% to $1 billion
But profits hit hard
Stepping up? DeNA's Downie resurfaces at Zynga
Corporate packs reshuffled
Stepping Downie: Clive Downie resigns as CEO of DeNA West
CFO Asako steps up
The Charticle: 2 million downloads not enough to stop The Drowning sinking
When a hit isn't really a hit
Rising Robot: Mobage generated 48% of its $10.7 million US April revenue via Google Play
Distimo points to growing app store parity
Clive Downie on DeNA's goal to be the most successful entertainment company in the world
Wants 50 minutes of your day, every day
#GDC 2013: Is Rage of Bahamut leading the charge for game publishing 2.0?
Cygames 'would be nowhere' without DeNA
They're All Hot
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2013
The shakers, makers and movers
DeNA spends $92 million, buying a 20% stake in Rage of Bahamut dev Cygames
Protecting key franchises
Global Winners
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2012
The movers and shakers of the past 12 months
DeNA partners with Alibaba to take Mobage to cloud-based OS Aliyun in China
Pre-loaded on first handset in early 2012
Opinion: The painful progression of DeNA and GREE's $500 million US expansion
Culture clashes, staff unrest, slow tech integration
How $13.4 million of losses at ngmoco makes its $403 million DeNA buyout seem a very good deal
Devil in the detail
DeNA swoops for ngmoco in $403 million deal
Japanese giant looks to ride the social gaming wave
DeNA's Astro Ape investment marks first X-device, X-border deal
Promises more M&A activity inbound
DeNA plans social game investment with $27.5 million incubator
Firm looking to boost development
DeNA's Tomoko Namba on the platform business, expanding westward and kickstarting Japanese PC social gaming
Wants US and European developers to get involved
Japanese social gaming company DeNA sees sales up 28% to $517 million
Aurora Feint backer expanding fast
DeNA investment will fuel OpenFeint expansion into global smartphone market
In-app purchases will be one focus
Japanese mobile firm DeNA selects OpenFeint for multi-million dollar investment
Brings Hudson on board as first Japanese adopter