By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Tokyo-based game maker GungHo, the company that entered a joint venture with RockYou and SoftBank in July 2009 in Japan, just released Homerun Hero, a cute social baseball game on Mobage (which has nothing to do with said JV). Needless to say, the game allows users to play against other Mobage...
CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent America has released a new iPhone app: dubbed FreeAppKing, the app lets “filters” the AppStore and gives users a variety of apps to choose from, especially those that are free, discounted or on sale. FreeAppKing can be downloaded for free and in English...
Japan’s biggest search engine, portal and site, Yahoo Japan, has posted some pretty good financials yesterday. Net profit for the January-March 2011 quarter grew 4.3% from 2010 on a continuing increase in advertising sales, which means even the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March...
Kakaku has announced the launch of a new version of Tabelog, its popular restaurant search and rating service, for the iPhone. Version 4 enables iPhone users to contribute information, reviews and pictures to a given restaurant in Japan directly through their handsets (download). Kakaku has also...
GREE is on a roll today: following the relatively big news that the company invested $25 million in a fund to support early-stage Android developers, this news is even bigger. GREE today acquired iOS and Android social platform OpenFeint for $104 million. Here is GREE’s press release in...
TechCrunch today has an article on a newly set up (and pretty spectacular) fund that will support early-stage Android developers. The so-called A-Fund is worth $100 million and aims at the Asian market in particular. GREE is a part of it, as is KDDI and Tencent, but the fund is actually being led...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry