By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
Groupon Japan is losing ground to Ponpare, a clone offered by Japanese web giant Recruit, if data compiled by daily coupon search service CP4U is to be believed. Too many “glitches”? The study CP4U released today [JP, PDF] analyzes sales numbers of Groupon and a total of 155 Japanese...
CyberAgent just announced GameWave, a mobile social gaming platform that will go live this spring. No doubt, this will be an uphill battle, but there are three things that are noteworthy here: GameWave will be available exclusively on the iPhone CyberAgent wants to initially focus on the US market...
Facebook Japan today inked a quite spectacular deal with Tokyo-based Dentsu, one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world. Under the deal, Dentsu will become the official representative of Facebook Japan’s sales and marketing operations (also see here). Dentsu will consult Japanese...
Established in February 2010, Facebook Japan‘s Tokyo office was the first outside the US (outside the Bay Area, even) staffed with engineers. There are six people working for the company at the moment in their office in Harajuku (actually a remodeled apartment), three Japanese and three...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry