By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Granted, this isn’t exactly a social game, but the title is important enough for GREE to issue a separate press release: “Hourface for GREE” is the GREE version of popular iPhone photo app Hourface. Just like that app, Hourface for GREE visualizes how the user’s face may...
More games for the Mobage for Smartphones platform: Tokyo-based Pokelabo (a major third-party social game developer in Japan) has announced Pokelabo Basketball on Mobage for Android. The game isn’t a separate app but can be downloaded via Mobage’s native Android app, which went live...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry