By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE today announced it has inked a deal with Adobe to bring the new Adobe AIR 3 plugin to social game providers this fall. GREE partners can then “embed the functions provided by the GREE SDK into AIR-based applications”. Through the plugin, developers can also create multi-platform...
Yesterday, TechCrunch Japan reported about a very interesting tie-up in Japan’s Internet and mobile world: GREE is partnering up with NTT, NEC Biglobe, Septeni and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital to launch a fund targeted at early-stage startups. Japan has seen a seed accelerator/incubator bubble...
Mixi is expanding its smartphone offering. The company has announced it rolled out a Mixi application for Windows Phone, which can be downloaded for free on the marketplace. Mixi says the apps supports all handsets with Windows 7.0 on board but recommends Windows 7.5 for best performance...
Mixi has announced the acquisition of Naked Technology, a Tokyo-based mobile application development company. Naked Technology was founded in 2006 by a group of four engineers who are all graduates of the so-called MITOH program set up by the Japanese government to support outstanding engineers...
Asian tech blog Penn Olson (to be more specific, writer Rick Martin) has posted a video interview (please turn on close captioning in English) with Taisei Yoshida, GREE’s senior vice president of media business development. The interview was done during the Tokyo Game Show 2011 that ended a few...
DeNA‘s Kaito Royale isn’t only successful on Mobage, the company’s own platform. It’s also available – and very popular – on Mixi, Japan’s largest real identity social network. In fact, Gamebiz reports that the game hit 6,007,985 users today, at 11am JST...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry