By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Nice win for GREE today: the company announced a deal that has the potential to be worth more than DeNA scoring the rights for the Infinity Blade social game. GREE is teaming up with Ubisoft to bring Assassin’s Creed, one of the most successful video game franchise of the last years (38...
GREE today announced the release of a new social game called Gang Domination for their globally integrated platform, which is scheduled to launch between April and June this year. GREE partnered up with French gaming company Gameloft to develop the title, which will be released in English and Japan...
GREE is currently in the spotlight in Japanese media, following reports that their top social game, Tanken Doliland, is affected by a bug that lets users copy rare cards and auction them off online to other players. For more background on this issue, see: Gree’s Tanken Doriland Bug Let Users Copy...
One of the main reasons DeNA, GREE and (some of) the 400+ third-party social game makers in Japan are raking in as much money as they do is “gacha”, a special element found in almost every social game in this country. I created a quick guide to explain the gacha phenomenon: I)...
GREE‘s globally integrated mobile social gaming platform is just a few months away, and after presenting details about dev support for “GREE 2.0”, the company today announced a total of 12 new games. No less than 11 companies based out of mainland China, Hong Kong and Korea are...
Osaka isn’t the only city GREE is moving to: GREE International, GREE’s US company, is ready to move to a new office in San Francisco this spring. The company will be operating out of 41,000 square feet in a space located in San Francisco’s China Basin neighborhood. By way of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry