By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent has announced the launch of Animal Land, a city management simulation, on Facebook for the PC. The social game is available in English and can be accessed here. CyberAgent explains: ‘Animal Land’ is a city management game where players must explore land, build houses and shops, and...
During the Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2011 I attended in Kyoto earlier this week, GREE CFO Naoki Aoyagi took part in a panel discussion on how to bring Asian tech companies to the global market. I have made shots of each slide Aoyagi showed during the event and which you can find below (my...
I am currently attending the Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2011 in Kyoto, a two-day web/mobile/social gaming industry that takes place twice a year. During this invitation-only event (usually, only C-level executives from Japanese and international tech companies get to take part), one panel...
On November 21, GREE announced it filed a lawsuit against its rival DeNA, seeking damages of at least US$13 million. The claim: DeNA is pressuring third-party game developers into offering social games on Mobage only, leaving GREE out (background). DeNA now announced it has received papers from the...
GREE has finally come out with a few details regarding that unified/global/mobile social gaming platform it plans to launch next year. The news item is actually so big that I decided to publish it on TechCrunch: Japan’s GREE To Challenge Facebook And Zynga As Global Social Gaming Platform In 2012...
One key reason why Japan’s social gaming platforms are so successful is frictionless payment. Both DeNA and GREE have put a lot of effort in optimizing this part of their business in the past, and now GREE made it even easier to pay for virtual goods. GREE users in Japan that don’t want...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry