By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Japan’s biggest e-commerce company Rakuten has announced it teamed up with Google Japan to bring Google Adsense to various Rakuten properties. Under the deal, the Google ads will be placed: in the Rakuten toolbar on the PC (from May 10) on Infoseek on the PC, Rakuten’s web portal (from...
Tokyo-based (and listed) Vector has simultaneously released a new social game on three platforms today: on Mixi for the PC, Japanese feature phones (Mixi Mobile) and smartphones (Mixi Touch). In Oshaberi Cafe, the player takes on the role of a “daughter of a high-class family” who has...
CyberAgent today announced a new iPhone app for Ameba members: Ameba Channel is supposed to make it easier to consume blogs available on the Ameba platform (CyberAgent calls the app a “blog reader”) on the iPhone. For that, CyberAgent decided to break down the Ameba blogging platform...
Tokyo-based social app provider gumi released Happyful Garden on GREE, which is (as the name suggests) a new gardening game (the title’s biggest competitor on the platform is GREE’s self-developed Haconiwa). In the game, the player is supposed to create a garden by planting flowers...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry