By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent‘s hit virtual world Ameba Pigg is seeing success outside Japan: according to Gamebusiness.jp, Ameba Pico (Pigg’s name in non-Japanese markets) just hit the 4 million user mark. The game news portal is citing CyberAgent’s official Twitter account. The super-cute virtual...
Japanese web and digital advertising powerhouse CyberAgent has posted its financial report for fiscal 2011 today. And in a nutshell, things are looking pretty good for the owner of blogging platform Ameba, virtual world Ameba Pigg, and a handful of social gaming companies: sales: ¥119,578 million...
More VC money is flowing into Japan’s social gaming sector: ONE of THEM, a mobile social games company established in Tokyo in January this year, has just raised a total of 300 million yen (US$3.9 million). The investors are Globis Capital Partners and Infinity Ventures. One of Them focuses...
CyberAgent announced yet another app for the iPhone. This time, it’s ME_HER [iTunes, Japanese only], a “fashion snap” app that lets users view pictures of fashion (and other) items that were taken by female stars in the Ameba network. CyberAgent says the free is especially geared...
CyberAgent announced World Chef today, a social restaurant simulation (in English) on Facebook (it’s actually already available here). The game essentially works like one of the many, many similar restaurant management games out there, but with one catch: it links to another CyberAgent...
CyberAgent is counting 8 million users in its virtual world Ameba Pigg (latest stat available, for June 12), and the company is now stepping up efforts to add more and more features to it. Apart from linking social games from the company’s catalog to Ameba Pigg, another way is to integrate...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry