Back in February 2011, Sega launched the first social version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku, its popular action-adventure game series on GREE for feature phones. (The video game version is known as “Yakuza” in the US and other places.) In July 2011, Sega followed up with a social Yakuza game on GREE for the...
Konami Launches Star Wars Collection Social Game On GREE [Social Games]
Just in time for the Japanese release of Star Wars 3D on the big screen (next month), Konami launched Star Wars Collection, a card battle game based on the movie series, on GREE today. Konami announced the social game last month, explaining: STAR WARS COLLECTION is a card game that will have...
Zynga Japan Is Still Active, Rolls Out Made-In-Japan Social RPG [Social Games]
Zynga Japan has been very quiet for a while (the reason being they just weren’t very active or successful in recent months, to say the least), but now the company has rolled out a social RPG with original IP for iOS (Zynga Japan calls it a “Monster Battle RPG”). What’s...
Overview: All GREE-DeNA Lawsuits So Far At A Glance [Social Games]
GREE and DeNA never had a close relationship (to say the very least), but things started getting really ugly – in the public eye- when GREE first sued the Mobage operator back in September 2009. The Nikkei has released this handy overview that lists up all legal disputes between the two arch...
Court Orders DeNA To Remove Fishing Game On Mobage, Pay GREE [Social Games]
A long battle in court has come to an end (for now): back in September 2009, GREE sued DeNA for infringing the copyright on their hit social game Tsuri Star. The title, a fishing game, was (and still is) one of GREE’s biggest money makers. GREE says DeNA has copied elements like Tsuri...
GREE Fixes doliland Bug [Social Games]
GREE announced they have fixed the glitch in doliland and made it possible for all players to use the card trading function again. A glitch in their top social game and No. 1 money maker, which was made public a few days ago, made it possible for two players to copy rare cards and sell them off...