By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry