By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi and Twitter Japan have officially announced that partnership that was leaked to the press a few days ago. The goal is to develop new products and advertising services, with Mixi hinting at a function that may make it possible for their users...
After announcing the deal last month, DeNA and major Korean online portal Daum signed a partnership agreement to bring Mobage to users in South Korea via Daum’s portal and mobile apps. DeNA Seoul, a subsidiary DeNA proper set up in June this year, is supposed to manage Mobage’s entry...
DeNA has been fighting, but the company finally announced today that the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) approved the planned acquisition of a 66.92% stake in Yokohama BayStars, a professional baseball team. The green light from the organization was expected to come a few weeks ago...
GREE‘s partnership with Tencent is bearing some fruit: Taito’s Android game Spy Wars has been made available on the Chinese social networking platform. To be more concrete, Spy Wars is deployed on the ” Tencent Wireless Open Platform for Community for smartphones”. GREE...
Here is an answer I gave to the question on popular Q&A site Quora: It very much depends on the game, but the social card games usually start by giving you a few cards so you can actually start playing. There are a few ways to obtain cards (to complete the deck) and interact with players. There...
Konami has released a social horse racing game on Mobage that has a very interesting twist: some races taking place in the game are timed with races taking place in the real world. The company bought an official license for “Dream Stallion” from the JRA (Japan Racing Association) to be...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry