By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
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, 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...
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...
I just stumbled upon this thread on Quora in which someone claims he has seen Facebook Japan’s country growth manager Taro Kodama saying on TV his company is aiming at 50 million users in Japan. While I cannot confirm this statement (I haven’t seen the interview), I can offer a link to...
What’s the difference between Facebook and Mixi? That’s a big question many regular (non-geek) social media users in Japan ask themselves and a challenge for Facebook Japan: if they think Mixi is basically the same as Facebook, there is no point in changing sides. While I could easily...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry