By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
It took Dwango years to release Nico Nico Douga in English, and after they finally did today, all I can say is that it is hugely disappointing, even for a beta release. Dubbed Nico Nico (Dwango dropped the “Douga”, which is Japanese for movies), the site, in its current form, looks more...
Announced last month, available today: GREE finally released Tecmo Koei’s 100 Man Shin Sangoku Musou, a social game that mixes action with tactical elements. The title is a standalone/original game, but GREE says if owners of the PS3 version use a serial to be found inside the game’s...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry