By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent has announced it started offering its hit game Twinkle Bar on Mixi Touch (the smartphone browser version of Mixi) and Ameba Mobile. The title, a bar management simulation, has racked up 2 million users on Mixi Mobile (Mixi on feature phones) in about a year. On Ameba Mobile (Ameba on...
CyberAgent‘s super-popular virtual world Ameba Pigg (aka Ameba Pico) is getting a new, in-world social game: a gardening simulation called Pigg Life yesterday followed the casino and fishing game that were playable on Pigg already. In Japan, Ameba Pigg has hit 7 million members in March...
Ameba operator CyberAgent has announced guppi, a free Twitter client for Android phones. The app incorporates all the usual features users would expect from a Twitter client, plus over 35 different backgrounds for the timeline and a special photo filter function (see below) CyberAgent says that...
CyberAgent today announced a new iPhone app for Ameba members: Ameba Channel is supposed to make it easier to consume blogs available on the Ameba platform (CyberAgent calls the app a “blog reader”) on the iPhone. For that, CyberAgent decided to break down the Ameba blogging platform...
Earlier this month, DeNA and CyberAgent announced the launch of an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). The joint venture, which is 51% owned by CyberAgent and 49% by...
Twitter is huge in Japan, but CyberAgent thinks it has found a niche with Ameba tappie and Ameba tachy. Both services are free, were announced today and essentially offer the same function: they allow users to share “tweets” and communicate with a self-selected group of friends. Up to...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry