By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook Japan and the country’s biggest advertising agency Dentsu are copying an innovation from Mixi: both companies have announced the launch of “Postman”, a service that makes it possible to create and send New Year greeting postcards to your friends on Facebook. Just like...
A nice win for DeNA: Konami has silently released one of their top social games on GREE, namely social baseball card game Professional Baseball Dream Nine, on Mobage today. The game is now available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones and Mobage for Android. It looks like Konami just...
The New Year is just around the corner, and millions of Japanese people will write even more postcards to friends, family and business partners to celebrate the occasion. Mixi, in 2008, started making it possible for users to create and send these so-called nengajo to their friends via Mixi, even...
Japanese web and digital advertising powerhouse CyberAgent has posted its financial report for fiscal 2011 today. And in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the owner of blogging platform Ameba, virtual world Ameba Pigg, and a handful of social gaming companies: sales: ¥119,578 million...
It’s not the first mobile social game from Square Enix, but DeNA just announced a big win: Final Fantasy is coming to Mobage, albeit for the Japanese market first. Details of the social version of the mega-popular RPG series are scarce, but DeNA says Mobage players can pre-register on Mobage...
Mixi is ready to set up a US unit next month, but this is not all as far as its efforts in America are concerned: as reported on TechCrunch Japan, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network (over 25 million users), has entered a partnership with Silicon Valley-based NetService Ventures...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry