By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent (its investment subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures, to be more precise) has invested $1 million in iPeen, a Taiwanese e-commerce site. iPeen offers information on a total of 85,000 Taiwanese restaurants and offers discount coupons to its members. Taiwanese news site Focus Taiwan reports that...
Another hit video game series get the social game treatment: SNK Playmore today announced it has released “The King Of Fighters Battle Festa” on Mobage (King Of Fighters is one of the most famous fighting game series of all time). SNK says that in order to make the game social, Mobage...
This is probably one of the biggest wins (content-wise) for DeNA in recent months: Sega is planning to bring one of the biggest brands for role-playing games out there, Phantasy Star, to Mobage. Dubbed Phantasy Star Eternal Hunters, the social game was exclusively developed for Mobage for Japanese...
Earlier this month, DeNA and CyberAgent announced the launch of an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). The joint venture, which is 51% owned by CyberAgent and 49% by...
Mobage is getting another port of a hit console game: this time DeNA announced that Capcom will release BASARA Mobile, a social game version of its popular game series Sengoku Basara, on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. The game will go live in June, but DeNA says users can already pre-register...
GREE just announced that it gets another hit console game: Sega has decided to port Puyo Puyo, a classic puzzle to GREE for smartphones, namely as apps for the iPhone and Android. Dubbed “Puyo Puyo Fever Touch for GREE”, the game will contain only mild social elements, for example...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry