By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
This is huge news: after rolling out a smartphone web-optimized version of Mobage-town in Japan yesterday and explaining its international plans, DeNA followed up with another big news item today. The company inked a deal with Samsung, under which several months from now all Samsung Android phones...
Japanese site Game Watch has some more information about DeNA’s future plans with Mobage-town. I reported earlier today about the new Mobage-town smartphone version, but there is more: 1) International version Dena will launch the international version of Mobage-town (simply dubbed...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry