By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE‘s globally integrated mobile social gaming platform is just a few months away, and after presenting details about dev support for “GREE 2.0”, the company today announced a total of 12 new games. No less than 11 companies based out of mainland China, Hong Kong and Korea are...
Osaka isn’t the only city GREE is moving to: GREE International, GREE’s US company, is ready to move to a new office in San Francisco this spring. The company will be operating out of 41,000 square feet in a space located in San Francisco’s China Basin neighborhood. By way of...
After opening one office after the other outside Japan last year, GREE is planning to open a social game development studio in Osaka later this month. What’s interesting is that this office will be the first of its kind outside Tokyo: the company does employ hundreds of people in Hokkaido and...
CyberAgent is continuing to expand its social gaming business. The Japanese web powerhouse, which is currently listed at the Tokyo Stock Exchange with a US$1.9 billion market cap, has acquired a majority stake in Tokyo-based R-Force Entertainment. The Tokyo-based game maker has been around since...
GREE just announced they will set up a booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), to be held in Los Angeles from June 5-7 this year. It will be the first time for GREE to take part in the event, which is the world’s biggest of its kind. The company is planning to showcase games and use...
DeNA‘s US company ngmoco recently laid off 30 people, TechCrunch and Inside Mobile Apps are reporting. According to TechCrunch, the group includes “senior leaders including a director of platform tech and the chief marketing officer”. The same blog is reporting that one game has...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry