By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
How can you make it easier for users to pay for for virtual items? You make it easier for them to pay, and that’s what GREE just did. Players using GREE on Japanese feature phones can now pay via credit card. Even though credit cards aren’t as widely used in Japan as in the US, for...
What many people, especially those living outside Japan and those who never used GREE, don’t know is that GREE isn’t only about gaming. And the newest title, Gekkan Men, a (printed) photo book series that was just launched in Japan, is a case in point. Gekkan Men (Monthly Men) has been...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry