By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
I just posted an article on Asiajin on GREE having announced the opening of an office in San Francisco. Read it here: GREE opens subsidiary in the US. If GREE succeeds in the US, it would be the first web company from Japan in history. I am skeptical personally, but I am even more skeptical of...
Yahoo Mobage, the PC social games platform run by Yahoo Japan and DeNA (Mobage-town), is continuing to grow nicely. Today it was reported that Yahoo Mobage now has 2 million users. The first million users were counted after 51 days, while it took Yahoo Mobage to get a second million in 53 days. 68%...
Major Japanese tech blog TechWave is today running a story on how Japan’s social games market has evolved from 2009 to 2010 and how it will grow until 2014. According to Seed Planning, the market research company behind the analysis, Japan’s social game market grew 305% from 2009 to 2010...
A nice win GREE announced today: following Mixi, GREE has succeeded in getting its “Like/Share” button on Yahoo Japan (15 services, i.e. Yahoo News, Q&A, Finance, Beauty, etc.) – on the PC, feature and smart phones. The collaboration should help GREE strengthen its social graph on...
Japanese newspaper Sankei is reporting trouble for GREE: the “Kansai Consumers Support Organization”, an Osaka-based NPO, has asked GREE stop using the words “free of charge” in commercials, as the organization thinks this claim violates the Japanese truth-in-advertising law. In fact...
GREE today announced it has attracted 171 partner companies for the so-called “GREE Platform for smartphone” so far. These companies are committed to develop social games for GREE’s future Android and iPhone iOS versions. Partners include some pretty big names like Konami...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry