By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
This is probably interesting for anyone reading this: GREE took part in the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco earlier this month (the company also plans a showing at the E3 in Los Angeles in May). At the GDC, GREE International’s SVP Of Product, Ethan Fassett, delivered a...
Facebook reached an important milestone: the company’s Tokyo subsidiary today announced that the number of active Japanese users on Facebook users hit 10 million (active=logged in at least once per month). In other words, 10% of Japan’s web population is actively using Facebook. The...
Zombie Jombie – that’s the name of GREE‘s first game specifically designed for a non-Japanese audience. It took the company over a year to release a title outside its home market, and following a “stealth” test roll-out in the Canadian App Store, Zombie Jombie hit the...
I am excited to follow an invitation from Singapore’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association (SVCA) to give a presentation on Japan’s social gaming industry. The title of the presentation will be “Mobile Social Gaming: How Japan Is Pioneering The Next Multi-Billion...
Back in February 2011, Sega launched the first social version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku, its popular action-adventure game series on GREE for feature phones. (The video game version is known as “Yakuza” in the US and other places.) In July 2011, Sega followed up with a social Yakuza game on GREE for the...
I am excited to speak at the Asia Pacific ICT Summit 2012, which takes place next week in Singapore (March 13-14). As the name suggests, the event focuses on digital media, and information and communications technology (ICT) in Asia. The summit is put together by Singapore infocomm Technology...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry