Until the mid 1990s, Japanese game developers were leading the way. With console makers Nintendo and Sega and later Sony acting as gatekeepers, they were often more successful than their western ...

The ink's still drying on Tapjoy's trilateral deal with CocoaChina and Gfan. The mobile monetisation platform's move on China sees it partnering with a major publisher and one of the region's largest ...

Hideo Kojima’s admired Western game developers for a long time. Now it sounds like he’s gearing up to actually work with them. Asked by Kikizo what he thinks of Konami’s decision to farm out the ...

Japanese gamers don't yet see smartphones and tablets as fully formed gaming devices, instead using them primarily as platforms for genres such as card battlers. That's the take of Marvelous AQL ...

Capcom boss Haruhiro Tsujimota has revealed that the Japanese giant no longer intends on looking to western developers when creating fresh intellectual properties. Chatting with the Financial Times, ...

In a recent interview, Square Enix president & CEO Yosuke Matsuda, said that if its Japanese game studios created titles specifically for the western markets they wouldn't be good. As reported by VGC, ...