By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
DeNA has partnered up with major Japanese TV station Fuji TV to develop a very special social game for Mobage: Ōoku is based on the TV show (a drama series) of the same name and which centers on the harem of Edo Castle, “the section where the women connected to the reigning Shogun...
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...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry