By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
After the soft launch of Rakuten Belanja in March, Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten has now officially opened Rakuten Belanja, their online B2B2C shopping mall in Indonesia. In partnership with PT Global Mediacom, the country’s ‘s largest media group, Rakuten Belanja...
Ameba operator CyberAgent has announced guppi, a free Twitter client for Android phones. The app incorporates all the usual features users would expect from a Twitter client, plus over 35 different backgrounds for the timeline and a special photo filter function (see below) CyberAgent says that...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry