By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The Nikkei is reporting today that GREE added yet another payment method for virtual and avatar-related items in Japan: starting today, players using GREE on smartphones can pay via PayPal. PayPal does have a presence in Japan, but for legal and other reasons, the service hasn’t took off in...
DeNA is already active in China, one of their three self-defined core markets, but it looks like Chinese users will hear more from Mobage soon. The company today announced it has entered a strategic partnership with the Alibaba group, specifically Alibaba Cloud Computing (AliCloud). Under the deal...
I am hearing that Konami’s super hit social game Dragon Collection has been losing steam in recent weeks, but the company yesterday announced that it now counts five million players for the GREE title (feature phone and smartphone users combined). As other companies do, Konami celebrates the...
Popular social card game FIFA World Class Soccer has racked up one million registered players in just 25 days, as Japanese news site Gamebiz reports today. The title went live last month on GREE and immediately took the top spot in the platform’s popularity ranking (for a limited time). And...
GREE has been choosing between around 10 companies for deploying the collaboration tool to enable communication with and between 2,500 developers for their newly announced mobile social networking network (that’s scheduled to go live next year). Now Salesforce reports that it will provide the...
GREE is apparently killing it on smartphones, specifically on the iPhone. According to a recent statement by GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka, his company’s sales coming from smartphones grew by 655% from June to October. Tanaka also mentioned one specific, very interesting data point that made...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry