By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for DeNA in the US: the company won an award at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 that took place the day before yesterday in Santa Clara. To be more precise, DeNA won the O’Reilly MySQL Corporate Contributor of the Year 2011: DeNA is Japan’s biggest social...
Gardening simulation Haconiwa, one of the biggest games on GREE, gets the Android treatment. GREE announced that their (self-developed) title is now available through their Android website and is optimized for touch control and a bigger screen size. Players changing from the feature phone version...
I am currently attending Digital Garage‘s New Context Conference 2011 Spring in Ebisu/Tokyo, a web industry conference first started in 2006. The general topic this year: Social media played an important role in the spread of information in the current Higashi-Nihon Earthquake. Twitter and...
Earlier this week, GREE announced it has teamed up with South Asian mobile community mig33, which will adopt the GREE platform for smartphone: Big news from Asia’s social games industry today: Japanese mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE and mig33, a mobile community that’s especially popular in...
Legendary multiplayer-game Bomberman (which I played on at least 10 different video game platforms when I was younger) is now available on GREE in the form of a social game. The title, Bomberman for GREE, was announced by its maker Hudson earlier this week. As with most video game titles originally...
In December 2010, Japan-based publisher Eastpress started distributing Appli Style, the first (printed) magazine on social games in the world. And now DeNA, or rather its social games platform Mobage, gets its own magazine, too. The so- called Famitsu Mobage has 96 pages (published by Enterbrain)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry