By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Rakuten makes another step into selling digital content. The company has announced the launch of the website for their e-book store “Raboo” two days ago: So far, only buyers of Panasonic’s e-reader UT-PB1 were able to access Raboo from their device, but now anybody can purchase books through...
And yet another investment from CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures: this time, the Tokyo office decided to pump an undisclosed amount into Retty, a social restaurant guide. The investment is one of the first coming from the so-called CA Startups Internet Fund I that CyberAgent set up earlier...
Here’s quite an unusual tie-up for a social game maker: DeNA today announced they partnered up with major online restaurant guide service Gourmet Navigator (Gurunavi) to promote usage of a social restaurant management game on Mobage. Under the campaign, players of “Bistro World”...
Back in March, GREE partnered up with 3D game development tool maker Unity to offer the so-called “Unity Plugin for GREE” to social game developers. In June, GREE followed up with a list of some games running on Unity to be released this summer. And now GREE announced that they will distribute the...
Just so you working in the social games industry don’t miss it, here is the link to DeNA‘s Annual Report 2011. DeNA just uploaded the report, it’s in English and 70 pages long: DeNA Annual Report 2011 I will grind through it in the days to follow, as the report contains tons of...
I attended almost every Tokyo Game Show event in recent years, and up until now, makers of social games (or online games in general, for that matter) were almost none present. But times are changing: GREE has announced it will not only take part this year but also occupy 120 units of the space...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry