By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
DeNA has added a new title on Mobage to its main proprietary sub-brand for social games, the “Royal” series (the most popular title being Kaitou Royal), today. Story-wise, “Teikoku Royal”, which is designed as a social adventure game, takes place somewhere in the...
Mixi released the earnings result for the full fiscal year 2010 on its website. According to the report, Mixi now has 23.37 million users, saw sales growing 24.1% year-year-on-year, and operating income growing 22.5%.
The entire report can be downloaded in English from here.
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry