By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent, through its subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures (Beijing) Investment Consulting Co., made yet another investment: this time, the company acquired a 25% stake in smartphone game maker EpicForcc Entertainment. Details of the deal weren’t disclosed, but CyberAgent was apparently...
Kakaku has released traffic information on its biggest properties for June 2011, their namesake price comparison site (and Japan’s largest) and restaurant guide (and Gourmet Navigator competitor) Tabelog. And according to the report, both Kakaku and Tabelog grew significantly on a year-on...
Bloomberg posted a pretty weird video report on GREE on their website today. The report makes it look like the reporter had an interview with GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka, but Tanaka himself can be seen speaking in the report for only 10 seconds or so. The main bullet point here is that GREE...
If you ever wondered which pages on Facebook in Japan have the most fans, head over to Facebook JapanInside, an unofficial site that tracks exactly that kind of statistics (among other things). The site is in Japanese, but just follow this link for an up-to-date ranking of Facebook pages in Japan...
GREE today announced they have inked a deal with Korean gaming company COM2US to release Homerun Battle 3D on GREE for smartphones. Next month, GREE will release the baseball game as a native app for GREE on the iPhone (it became available on the Android Market today). What’s interesting is...
The Tokyo office of American social gaming juggernaut RockYou, RockYou Asia, has released Speed Racing 2 on Mobage for Japanese feature phones today. Part 1 of the social racing game boasts over 10 million players on various platforms worldwide (1 million on the PC in Japan). Speed Racing 2...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry