By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Big news from Amazon regarding the Japanese market today. The company announced it has started offering its cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services to local customers via data centers located in Japan (near Tokyo). The new facility is Amazon’s fifth data center and the second in Asia...
GREE announced that “Pro Yakyuu Dream Nine” will become available on GREE for Japanese feature phones on Friday, a social baseball game (yakyuu means baseball in Japanese). There are social baseball games out there already, but this title, provided by Konami, is the first one carrying a...
Indonesian tech blog DailySocial just reported that Rakuten Belanja, Rakuten‘s online mall in Indonesia is now live (as a beta version). Rakuten Belanja is a joint venture with PT Global Mediacom Tbk, the biggest media company in Indonesia. The partnership was announced in December 2010. My...
Reuters just reported that Yahoo may finally be really willing to transfer its stake (35%) in Yahoo Japan, the country’s biggest website, to SoftBank, Yahoo Japan’s other major shareholder. SoftBank owns more than Yahoo itself (37.36%). Rumors about a possible exit by Yahoo have been...
GREE today announced it has entered a partnership with famed 3D game development tool maker Unity from San Francisco. Under the deal, GREE has started to offer the so-called “Unity Plugin for GREE” to social game developers providing titles to the platform. The plugin is part of the...
I am not sure if YouTube Japan and Nico Nico Douga will be amused about this: Tokyo-based startup Knowledge Flow has developed Niccori Chanel Viewer, a service that essentially mixes YouTube and Nico Nico Douga. Niccori is based on Nico Comment, a service that allows users to add comments to videos...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry