By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
What is GREE up to in the US, China and other places? GREE’s CFO and CEO of GREE International, Naoki Aoyagi, gave a very interesting (and pretty detailed) interview to US gaming site Gamasutra and answered this and other questions. It’s well worth the read. For example, Aoyagi says...
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten is active in a number of businesses, and online recipes is one of the newest. And now Rakuten Recipe, which has been growing rapidly since launch in October 2010 and might overtake market leader Cookpad at some point, is getting an iPhone app. The...
While I still think Gameloft has wasted money by releasing farming simulation Ecofarm in Japan (there are dozens of games like this in Japan’s social gaming market already), the company yesterday launched a far more promising title over here: N.O.V.A. Elite, a super-popular FPS already...
Video game maker Bandai Namco just announced another title to be added to its social games catalog: Kamen Rider Wars, based on the Japanese cult TV series Kamen Rider. The social card game will be released “this summer” exclusively on GREE. In the game, players follow one of the story...
GREE continues to go global: after announcing plans for offices in London, Singapore and Beijing back in March, the company today said it has established GREE Beijing, Inc. In China’s capital, GREE is close to local partner Tencent (the QQ operator) and to Shanghai-based and NASDAQ-listed...
Japan’s online restaurant navigation service and Tabelog competitor Gourmet Navigator (listed, 2440) has revamped its mobile site for smartphone browsers today. Before, users visiting on their iPhone or Android basically accessed the PC version. The new touch control-friendly Gourmet...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry