By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Last month, CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent America has released an iPhone app called FreeAppKing that alerts users whenever certain apps in the App Store become available for free or are discounted or on sale (see here). Now the company has announced that FreeAppKing has hit one million users in...
If you’re reading this, chances are you are interested to hear that Ameba and Ameba Pigg operator CyberAgent has relaunched their English corporate website yesterday. All English pages that were on the Japanese main site before (for example the IR section) have now moved to this address:...
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...
How has the stock of Japan’s major social networking companies, Mixi, GREE, DeNA and CyberAgent, been doing in the past 5 years when compared to the development of the Nikkei? In a nutshell, investors seem to really love the potential social games offer. Here’s the chart for Mixi (IPO...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry