I don’t think this is surprising to anyone: GREE just announced it has acquired another American company, following Openfeint and Funzio. This time the target was App Ant, a social games studio based in California. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. App Ant has worked together with...
GREE Announces Tokyo Game Show 2012 Line-Up [Social Games]
GREE is getting ready for their appearance at the Tokyo Game Show 2012 next week, the second after the event last year. Visitors can expect a keynote speech from GREE CEO Yoshikazu, a brand new GREE first-party title, and a total of 33 games at the company’s booth. Here’s the complete...
Tales Of Card Evolve: Bandai Namco’s Social Card Battle Game Lands On GREE [Social Games]
In June, Bandai Namco caused quite a splash when the company announced a partnership with GREE under which a number of selected social games would be released on GREE’s Japanese and global platforms. (Before that, Bandai Namco inked a similar deal with Mobage in 2011, which was even refreshed in...
GREE Gets First “Official” Sumo Social Game [Social Games]
GREE just announced it has secured the rights to create the first “official” sumo social game, Oozumou Card Kessen (Professional Sumo Card Battle). The company is developing the title in-house and plans to release it on GREE for feature phones and smartphones in November (pre...
Capcom And GREE Ink Deal For A Total Of 6 Social Games [Social Games]
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced that it has teamed up with Capcom in a pretty big deal under which the Osaka-based video game company will release a total six social games on the GREE platform by the end of the year. The six titles are: Everybody’s Capcom All Stars (release on...
Nirvaana of Genesis: Square Enix Launches Social Card Battle Game On GREE [Social Games]
In recent months, Square Enix has seen great success with “Diffusion Million Arthur”, a social card battle game the company launched in April in the Japanese App Store. Fast forward to today, and said title is still sitting firmly in the top 10 of the top grossing iPhone apps in Japan. It was the...