By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
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...
CyberAgent yesterday announced it has set up the so-called “International Mobile Marketing Division” that aims at providing “overseas companies with smartphone and mobile promotion opportunities in Japan”. The devil is in the details, but given that this country is a black...
CyberAgent‘s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is continuing to grow. According to a presentation the company gave during CEDEC 2011, the number of users currently stands at a whopping 8.5 million. That’s up from just 6 million users at the end of January this year...
And yet another investment from CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent Ventures: this time, the Tokyo office decided to pump an undisclosed amount into Retty, a social restaurant guide. The investment is one of the first coming from the so-called CA Startups Internet Fund I that CyberAgent set up earlier...
When I was playing Coin Pusher Mafia yesterday, it occurred to me that CyberAgent has actually launched Gamewave, it’s iPhone-only social gaming platform, without making a fuss about it. In fact, the company (neither CyberAgent nor CyberAgent America) never issued a press release about it...
Apparently CyberAgent knows how to do some things right in the App Store: the company announced its restaurant management game Zombie Restaurant has hit the top 10 for iOS devices in the American App Store (iTunes). As the name of the game suggests, Zombie Restaurant uses a new twist in the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry