Nice win for DeNA in the US: the company won an award at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 that took place the day before yesterday in Santa Clara. To be more precise, DeNA won the O’Reilly MySQL Corporate Contributor of the Year 2011: DeNA is Japan’s biggest social...
Famitsu Mobage: Mobage Gets Its Own Printed Magazine [Social Games]
In December 2010, Japan-based publisher Eastpress started distributing Appli Style, the first (printed) magazine on social games in the world. And now DeNA, or rather its social games platform Mobage, gets its own magazine, too. The so- called Famitsu Mobage has 96 pages (published by Enterbrain)...
DeNA And GMO Offer Mobage Cloud Computing Service For Social Game Makers [Social Games]
DeNA and GMO Internet Group have announced the launch of a cloud computing service aimed at Japan-based social game developers that want to bring their games to international markets, especially the US. Both companies have started offering a similar service for the Japanese market as early as...
Disney MyLand: Social Themepark Simulation On Mobage [Social Games]
Disney hasn’t only entered CyberAgent’s Ameba Piggu virtual world, they just inked a deal with DeNA, too. Disney MyLand is a social themepark simulation game, which features the company’s iconic characters (and which is already available on Mobage). The goal of the game is to...
Mobage To Get Social Baseball Game Next Month [Social Games]
DeNA has announced it has inked a deal with professional baseball team Yomiuri Giants, Nippon TV and others to bring a “social baseball game” to Mobage next month. The game, dubbed Dramatic Kyojingun (Dramatic Giants), lets Mobage users choose members of the current (and former) Yomiuri...
Square Enix’ “Traveling Fairy” Lands On Mobage [Social Games]
Major Japanese video game maker Square Enix announced (and already released) Traveling Fairy today, a new fantasy adventure for Mobage for feature phones. As you would expect from Square Enix, the social game looks pretty slick. Traveling Fairy contains location-based elements and lets the player...