Konami’s top social game Dragon Collection is now available for download in the US App Store, after a 3-month test drive in Canada. The game didn’t really do that well in Canada, but it seems Konami and its distribution partner GREE are now ready to see how American users react to the...
After The GREE Deal: Yahoo Japan Strengthens Existing Partnership With DeNA [Social Games]
This is getting weird: just 24 hours after entering a new partnership with GREE, Yahoo Japan announced today that it’s ready to strengthen the existing partnership with GREE’s arch enemy, Mobage operator DeNA. This “double play” (as Pocketgamer puts it) is not only a great...
Puzzle & Dragons Lands In the US App Store [Social Games]
Japan’s most successful smartphone game Puzzle & Dragons is finally available in the US App Store, as tweeted out by GungHo America earlier today. The free-to-play mix between RPG and puzzle game can (and should, if I may add) be downloaded by clicking here. GungHo announced the release in...
JASGA: Japan Gets Social Game Association [Social Games]
It took a while, but the multi-billion dollar Japanese social gaming industry finally has its own association, named JASGA (Japan Social Game Association). JASGA’s establishment has (no doubt) been accelerated by the kompu gacha shock that hit the industry in May, followed by public pressure...
GREE Announces Partnership With Yahoo Japan [Social Games]
I think that this week is the busiest in Japan’s social gaming industry since May this year (when the kompu gacha shock hit), there is just so much going on. Today’s big news: GREE announced a comprehensive business partnership with Yahoo Japan, the country’s (by far) biggest web...
Tokyo-Based Social Game Maker enish To Get Listed Next Month [Social Games]
DeNA, GREE, KLab, Voltage, Index, A-team, Crooz… the list of publicly traded social gaming companies in Japan is about to get longer. Tokyo-based enish has announced it filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange to go public at the Mothers section for startups on December 11 (ticker: 3667). The...