By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Osaka-based Dimps has released Alien Vs. Gunners for Mobage on Wednesday, a social shooting game in 3D (powered by Unity). The game offers extra-cute graphics and music, weird characters (see the screenshots below), and the following story: evil aliens are attacking planet Earth in the year...
Finally: BNDeNA, the joint venture announced by DeNA and Namco Bandai during the Tokyo Game Show last year (more here), has its first game ready. And it looks pretty nice, at least on pictures (more on that in a minute). “Macross SP Cross Deculture” is, thank god, not the ten millionth...
There can be no question that the quality of social games in Japan, from a technical standpoint, is rising. Case in point: Buddy Monster, a 3D social RPG that just hit Mobage. Even though the name is terrible, the game itself actually looks great: after all, Buddy Monster is the brain child of Yuji...
GREE today announced they have inked a deal with Korean gaming company COM2US to release Homerun Battle 3D on GREE for smartphones. Next month, GREE will release the baseball game as a native app for GREE on the iPhone (it became available on the Android Market today). What’s interesting is...
There aren’t too many action games to be found on social gaming platforms, but GREE has Destroy Gunners, a 3D action game for GREE on Android that actually looks pretty good (I myself didn’t have the time to play it yet though). In the game, players control two-legged robots, destroying...
Granted, this isn’t exactly a social game, but the title is important enough for GREE to issue a separate press release: “Hourface for GREE” is the GREE version of popular iPhone photo app Hourface. Just like that app, Hourface for GREE visualizes how the user’s face may...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry