Popular social card game FIFA World Class Soccer has racked up one million registered players in just 25 days, as Japanese news site Gamebiz reports today. The title went live last month on GREE and immediately took the top spot in the platform’s popularity ranking (for a limited time). And...
GREE Teams Up With Salesforce For Its Global Mobile Social Gaming Network [Social Games]
GREE has been choosing between around 10 companies for deploying the collaboration tool to enable communication with and between 2,500 developers for their newly announced mobile social networking network (that’s scheduled to go live next year). Now Salesforce reports that it will provide the...
One GREE Smartphone Game Generates US$26 Million In Sales A Month [Social Games]
GREE is apparently killing it on smartphones, specifically on the iPhone. According to a recent statement by GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka, his company’s sales coming from smartphones grew by 655% from June to October. Tanaka also mentioned one specific, very interesting data point that made...
PR Stunt: GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka Addresses The Nation [Social Games]
Does Mark Zuckerberg buying a full-page ad on the New York Times and addressing the American nation sound ridiculous? Yes or no, something similar happened in Japan – just with Yoshikazu Tanaka instead of Zuckerberg, and Japanese newspapers like Yomiuri, Asahi or Nikkei instead of the NYT. In...
GREE Puts Up Billboards In The US Again [Social Games]
In September this year, GREE‘s US-based subsidiary GREE International has bought advertising space on a billboard on Highway 101 in San Francisco: Fast forward to December, and GREE is getting more aggressive in attracting talent in the US. Again, the company is planning to double its staff at GREE...
Slides From GREE’s Presentation At Infinity Ventures Summit [Social Games]
During the Infinity Ventures Summit Fall 2011 I attended in Kyoto earlier this week, GREE CFO Naoki Aoyagi took part in a panel discussion on how to bring Asian tech companies to the global market. I have made shots of each slide Aoyagi showed during the event and which you can find below (my...