By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE‘s success or failure as a platform outside Japan depends on the number of high-quality developers the company will be able to rope in. Today GREE International announced progress on that front: two US-based social game makers agreed to join GREE’s globally integrated platform...
Tokyo-based gumi is continuing to work on its plan to go global: after opening an office in South Korea this month, the biggest 3rd-party social game provider on GREE (and a GREE investee) just did the same in Singapore. gumi Asia, Pte ltd., was established on April 12 (two days after the Korea...
How can you beat the current engineer crunch that’s slowing down growth in Japan and elsewhere? GREE thinks it can motivate young engineers by way of a global contest, which is dubbed “SamurAI Coding” and will kick off in July. In cooperation with Information Processing Society of...
14-year old CyberAgent is close to a radical transformation of one its main pillars of business, the Ameba platform. Over the years, Ameba has transformed itself from a pure blogging platform on PCs and feature phones to a cross-service platform (using a single log-in approach) and successfully...
Nice win for DeNA: Rage Of Bahamut, a social card battle game made by Tokyo-based Cygames (a CyberAgent subsidiary), is the top-grossing app on Google Play. The main bullet point here is that the Android app is part of the Mobage network since February this year. Industry blog Inside Mobile Apps...
With regulation possibly around the corner, that council six top Japanese social game makers and platforms formed last month has announced a first set of measures to react to the mounting criticism of the industry in Japanese media. The council consists of members...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry