By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent is continuing to invest in Asia-based web startups. According to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, CyberAgent just invested US$700,000 in Tokopedia, a Jakarta-based e-commerce start-up. This is the third investment the company received, following rounds involving Indonesia’s PT...
It’s a hit social game on GREE, and now CyberAgent has announced that COORDE MANIA+ has been ported over to Mixi. In the game, players take on the role of a “fashion coordinator” (essentially a stylist) and dress up avatars with virtual items and accessories (see screenshots...
CyberAgent announced it has released a new social game on Mobage this week, a “social office worker simulation” called Gyakuten Salaryman. Not too surprisingly, the player takes on the role of an office worker in the game and is supposed to raise in the ranks as fast as possible. For...
The trend in Japan to port more and more social games from feature phones over to smartphones (and start with the hit games first) continues. CyberAgent recently brought Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town) to the App Store (free download), its popular cocktail bar simulation. The iPhone...
Virtual worlds Ameba Piggu (Ameba Pico) or TinierMe are just two CyberAgent properties boasting a handsome number of users located outside of Japan. The third one is Poupeegirl, an avatar-based “fashion community” mainly targeted at girls. CyberAgent launched Poupeegirl in 2007 before...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba is not only Japan’s biggest blogging site with 13 million members, it’s also famous for its “Ameba Geinoujin-Yuumeijin” (“Ameba Talents-Celebrities”) blogging platform, which hit the 9,000 user mark in January 2011. And now CyberAgent announced it will turn a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry