GREE offers over 500 social games at the moment, and DeNA‘s Mobage platform even is on the way to 1,000 titles. A reason for the rapid growth both platforms have been seeing in recent months is that more and more “traditional” Japanese video game makers are starting to develop...
How Big is Japan’s Social Gaming Market?
I regularly get asked how big Japan’s market for social games (deployed on GREE, Mobage, Mixi etc.) actually is. The short answer is it depends on who you ask – and you should be careful which numbers to rely on. Let’s just look at 3 sources: 1) Japanese government In July last...
CyberAgent’s Mobile Social Game “Dream Academia” Lands On Mobage
CyberAgent may not have its own mobile social gaming platform, but it has a handful of subsidiaries providing titles to DeNA’s Mobage, GREE or Mixi. Now CyberAgent has announced that one of these subsidiaries, Cyber-X, has released a new title on Mobage. “Dream Academia”, a social...
TinierMe: How Successful Is CyberAgent’s “Under The Radar” Virtual World?
One of CyberAgent‘s assets in the US (world) market is TinierMe. Offered by CyberAgent subsidiary Gcrest, TinierMe can best be described as a cute, anime-style virtual world that lets users interact and play games with each other as avatars (see screenshots below). What’s interesting is...
Yahoo Mobage: How Popular Is DeNA’s And Yahoo Japan’s Social Game Site?
Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage on mobile phones), has been off to a good start after the launch in the fall of 2010: in January 2011, DeNA reported that Yahoo Mobage crossed the 2 million mark after 104 days. If data coming from Nielsen Japan is...
GREE Opens US Website, Shows Open Job Positions
More mobile social games in the US: GREE has just switched on the English website of their San Francisco-based subsidiary, GREE International, Inc. This comes after the opening of the US office last month. GREE International also posts news via a new Twitter account and a corporate blog. 2...