By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Five weeks after the Funzio deal in the US, GREE acquired another foreign social game maker. This time, the company went for Korean startup PaprikaLab, which has released a number of titles on Facebook and mobile devices so far. GREE teamed up with Seoul-based COM2US for a social baseball game last...
I’m a big fan of PopCap’s tile-matching puzzle game series (and money-printing machine) Bejeweled and was excited to hear today that GREE added a new version of the game to their platform. Bejeweled Legend is an entirely new addition to the franchise, exclusively available for players...
While GREE appears to have given up on China, DeNA still keeps investing in that market: the Mobage operator just announced a deal with Chinese social networking service Renren. DeNA explains: As a part of the alliance, DeNA China and Renren have opened a dedicated section for Mobage inside the...
GREE has announced it has inked a deal with 2K Games to bring Sid’ Meier’s Pirates! and Civilization to the company’s global platform. Both titles are being developed in 2K’s studio in China and have no release date yet. What I find weird is that GREE only issued a press...
One key success factor for the rise of social gaming in Japan are the big investments in TV promotion the two big platform providers, GREE and DeNA, have been making in past years. If you live in Japan and watch a random national TV program for a few minutes, it’s almost impossible not to see...
GREE has released details about their booth at the upcoming E3 in LA, after announcing their presence at the show back in February. Between June 5 and 7, GREE is planning to showcase a total of 26 games (including some new ones) and staff the booth with some high-level executives. The E3 lineup...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry