By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
There are quite a few companies in Japan that are currently making good business with overcharging for Facebook-related B2B services, for example in e-commerce or marketing . The background is that Facebook, even though it’s growing in Japan, is still a black box for a lot of Japanese people...
Mobage and GREE may have well over 25 million users in Japan each, but that doesn’t stop Forif to try to become another mobile social gaming platform provider in the country. The Tokyo-based company, which was established in 2007, just launched a mobile social gaming service called Joynt...
Years after setting up a base in China, Japan’s biggest real-identity social network Mixi has announced it will open a subsidiary in the US as early as next month. Aptly named mixi America, the new unit is registered in Delaware, capitalized at US$5 million and wholly owned by Mixi in Japan...
The Sparxup Awards 2011 event for Indonesian startups in Jakarta has ended over the last weekend, and I was lucky to be chosen to hold the keynote presentation. My presentation’s topic was “Innovation, Imitation & Hyper-Localization In Asia”, and here are the slides (direct...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry