By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan, has announced a new location-based service called Yahoo Loco yesterday. It’s actually not an entirely new site, as Yahoo Loco mashes up a total of seven different existing Yahoo Japan services, for example Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Coupons or Yahoo Gourmet...
Update, June 23, 2011: See the results of the Mixi campaign summarized here. Japan’s largest real-identity social network Mixi has started distributing social banner ads, in cooperation with Nike Japan. Concept-wise, the so-called NikeiD campaign is very similar to the “mixi Xmas...
Given how insanely popular the brand is in Japan, this is not a big surprise: Disney Japan’s mobile social game MyLand, launched just last month, has hit 1 million users on May 30. The cute social theme park simulation is currently racking up 14 users per minute, according to Disney. MyLand...
If you’re reading this, chances are you are interested to hear that Ameba and Ameba Pigg operator CyberAgent has relaunched their English corporate website yesterday. All English pages that were on the Japanese main site before (for example the IR section) have now moved to this address:...
CyberAgent‘s super-popular virtual world Ameba Pigg (aka Ameba Pico) is getting a new, in-world social game: a gardening simulation called Pigg Life yesterday followed the casino and fishing game that were playable on Pigg already. In Japan, Ameba Pigg has hit 7 million members in March...
Indonesia isn’t enough: Hiroshi Mikitani, CEO of Japan’s largest online retailer Rakuten said at a press conference in Jakarta yesterday that after entering Indonesia, his company wants to expand to other countries in the South East Asia. Mikitani singled out the Philippines and...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry