By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
One of CyberAgent‘s assets in the US (world) market is TinierMe. Offered by CyberAgent subsidiary Gcrest, TinierMe can best be described as a cute, anime-style virtual world that lets users interact and play games with each other as avatars (see screenshots below). What’s interesting is...
Yahoo Mobage, Yahoo Japan’s and DeNA’s social game platform on the PC, is getting more and more games. One candidate for a future hit title isn’t a social game but a 3D virtual world called Pico Pico Town. Made by DeNA itself, Pico Pico Town went live today in beta. There are a total of 5...
CyberAgent on Friday announced that its “Ameba Geinoujin-Yuumeijin” (“Ameba Talents-Celebrities”) blogging platform has hit the 9,000 user mark in January. This section on Ameba is exclusively available for bloggers “accredited” by CyberAgent as “stars”. Ameba Geinoujin...
CyberAgent today announced its main Internet platform, Ameba, is now counting a whopping 13 million members. In fact, Ameba hit this mark one month ago, on January 5. One factor driving growth for CyberAgent is the aggressive TV advertising campaign the company started in the fall of last year and...
No doubt, CyberAgent’s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is a hit: the company today announced that Piggu now counts a whopping 6 million members in Japan. CyberAgent also says it pulls in 600 million yen in revenue ($7.2 million) per month from Ameba Piggu – through...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry