By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE stock has been growing rapidly in recent months, and today the company reported some impressive revisions in their earnings estimates for the fiscal year (which, for GREE, ends in June 2012) GREE is now projecting sales to reach US$1.67 billion to US$1.8 billion (that’s up 40-44.4% from...
A nice win for DeNA: Konami has silently released one of their top social games on GREE, namely social baseball card game Professional Baseball Dream Nine, on Mobage today. The game is now available on Mobage for Japanese feature phones and Mobage for Android. It looks like Konami just...
Mobage and GREE may have well over 25 million users in Japan each, but that doesn’t stop Forif to try to become another mobile social gaming platform provider in the country. The Tokyo-based company, which was established in 2007, just launched a mobile social gaming service called Joynt...
GREE has announced it bought a 8.3% stake in Mind Palette, a Tokyo-based startup that was established just in November 2010 (and is backed by CyberAgent Ventures). Mind Palette is focusing on one product at the moment: Snapeee, a picture-based social network that lets users add cute and funny...
Mega-popular Japanese girl group AKB48 is getting a social game: GREE announced that the 48 members of the band will be the main characters in a social card game that will be released on October 25 on GREE for Japanese feature phones. The title, dubbed AKB48 Stage Fighter, will offer 48 different...
Japanese video game makers are increasingly going social games, and Capcom hasn’t been an exception. It’s the maker that boasts the most international exposure in the mobile (social) gaming field, thanks to titles like Smurf’s Village and others. In an interview with Bloomberg...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry