By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Amazon Japan has released a native Android app today. It allows users to search for all 20 million items listed on Amazon Japan and directly make a purchase, too. The app also features a barcode function, Amazon’s 1-click ordering system, and Amazon Prime support. The Amazon Japan Android app...
Japan’s largest e-commerce company Rakuten released its earnings for the first quarter of fiscal 2011 today. And things are looking quite good: consolidated net sales, for example, rose 9.8% year-on-year to 86,921 million yen, despite the negative effects of the March 11 earthquake. Operating...
DeNA not only launched the native Mobage app for Android today (see here), the company also announced (press release in Japanese) it will strengthen game engine support for 3rd party developers that want to release social games on Mobage for smartphones. DeNA says they will offer the Mobage SDK...
DeNA finally did it: the company officially launched (press release in Japanese) the Mobage Android App (“Mobage for Smartphone”) today, albeit in Japan only for the time being. If you’re viewing this on an Android phone, visit this link to get the app. (In December, DeNA already...
Popular Japanese restaurant information service Gourmet Navigator (English website) has released its financial results for fiscal 2010. And business wasn’t as good as in fiscal 2009, it seems. Sales just grew 4.4% year-on-year, while net income fell a whopping 22% to just 1.8 billion yen...
Social games maker Happy Elements has released “My Kingdom” for GREE on the Android market. The game takes place during the Middle Ages, and players take on the role of a king who has to build a kingdom from scratch. As usual, the user has to erect buildings, manage resources, clear...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry