By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE announced they have fixed the glitch in doliland and made it possible for all players to use the card trading function again. A glitch in their top social game and No. 1 money maker, which was made public a few days ago, made it possible for two players to copy rare cards and sell them off...
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced a deal that has the potential to be worth more than DeNA scoring the rights for the Infinity Blade social game. GREE is teaming up with Ubisoft to bring Assassin’s Creed, one of the most successful video game franchise of the last years (38...
GREE today announced the release of a new social game called Gang Domination for their globally integrated platform, which is scheduled to launch between April and June this year. GREE partnered up with French gaming company Gameloft to develop the title, which will be released in English and Japan...
Klab acquired Tokyo-based social game maker Dream Laboratory, the company announced today. Dream Laboratory was founded in 2006, currently employs 19 people, and offers games on Mobage and Yahoo Mobage. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but given the current talent crunch in Japan’s...
Tokyo-based gloops announced they have racked up 100,000 users on Mobage for its newest social game Magigate – in just 7 hours. The biggest third-party developer on the platform released the social card battle game on February 17. The company owes this success to a number of factors, i.e. the...
GREE is currently in the spotlight in Japanese media, following reports that their top social game, Tanken Doliland, is affected by a bug that lets users copy rare cards and auction them off online to other players. For more background on this issue, see: Gree’s Tanken Doriland Bug Let Users Copy...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry