By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook is growing in Japan, Twitter is already huge – no surprise that GREE now lets you find and invite friends registered on these social networks with the push of a button. GREE enabled the two new options on its PC and smartphone platforms today. All you need to do is to enter your...
Good news for Facebook Japan lately: driven by heavy coverage in local media, the Social Network movie (that topped the box office in Japan) and a few other factors, Facebook has now hit 2.55 million users. That’s still a far cry from the 23 million users Mixi boasts, but Facebook added...
Online fashion mall Zozotown (background) is seeing a rapid growth in traffic, if a new report by Nielsen is to be believed. According to Nielsen Japan [PDF], Zozotown’s PC site saw a total of four million unique users, up from slightly over 2.5 million in November. Nielsen identifies three...
Japan’s No. 1 recipe site Cookpad (listed, 2193) posted its newest financial report [JP, PDF] for the third quarter of fiscal 2011, and things are looking pretty good. Sales soared 61.8% to 24.11 billion yen ($29.1 million), while net profit grew 86.2% to 722 million yen ($8.7 million)...
PC-based social games are on the rise in Japan: DeNA announced that Yahoo Mobage, the social gaming platform it operates with Yahoo Japan, now has 3 million users. It took Yahoo Mobage 51 days to get to the first million members, 53 more days to add another one million and now another 61 days to...
GREE today announced it has scored yet another exclusive social game: following Yakuza and Fist Of The North Star, Electronic Arts has chosen GREE for its first social game to be released in Japan. EA Mobile/Playfish has started offering “Minna No Sim City” (Everybody’s Sim City)...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry