By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Japan’s biggest business daily The Nikkei is reporting today that CyberAgent plans to step up their venture capital investment activities in Asia. Back in December last year, CyberAgent said it partnered up with DeNA and venture capital firm Japan Asia Investment (China) to invest a total of...
CyberAgent (its subsidiary Sumzap, to be more precise) has just announced the launch of social game Karisuma Shachou No Ketsudan (Determination of a charismatic company president) on Mobage for Japanese feature phones. Two things are special about this this title: Karisuma was designed by famous...
Japan’s smartphone market is growing rapidly, which means CyberAgent today announcing a new ad platform specifically aimed at these devices isn’t surprising. Dubbed “Ameba for Smartphone Touch Campus”, the ads will be shown on the company’s Ameba-branded services in...
CyberAgent just announced GameWave, a mobile social gaming platform that will go live this spring. No doubt, this will be an uphill battle, but there are three things that are noteworthy here: GameWave will be available exclusively on the iPhone CyberAgent wants to initially focus on the US market...
Mixi caused a splash last month, when it announced its decision to change its role from a “pure” social network provider to social network and social game provider (at least to some extent). It chose CyberAgent as a partner in a joint venture that will exclusively produce social apps...
Not only GREE, but also CyberAgent is aggressively hiring people at the moment, if a report by The Nikkei Marketing Journal (February 18 edition) is to be believed. The paper says that the Ameba provider wants to have 500 engineers (programmers) in its workforce by September 2012, up from the 200...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry