By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Kakaku has announced a native Android app for yoyaQ.com, its online reservation site for luxury hotels in Japan. The app lets users look up various information on hotels, for example pricing or availability of rooms. It’s also possible to bookmark entries, look for same-day deals with a...
Tokyo-based gaming company Spicysoft has announced it has landed a hit with Charisocial, a social game it has launched on Mobage 3 months ago: the company says that it has racked up 500,000 users since then. What’s special about this number is that according to Spicysoft, promotional efforts...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry