By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yesterday, TechCrunch Japan reported about a very interesting tie-up in Japan’s Internet and mobile world: GREE is partnering up with NTT, NEC Biglobe, Septeni and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital to launch a fund targeted at early-stage startups. Japan has seen a seed accelerator/incubator bubble...
Asian tech blog Penn Olson (to be more specific, writer Rick Martin) has posted a video interview (please turn on close captioning in English) with Taisei Yoshida, GREE’s senior vice president of media business development. The interview was done during the Tokyo Game Show 2011 that ended a few...
GREE had one of the biggest booths at this year’s Tokyo Game Show (which ended yesterday), and quite a large space was reserved for third-party titles (GREE only offers nine self-developed games on its platform, after all). From those titles, Konami’s social collectible card game Dragon...
Following Chaos Rings, GREE is soon to get another title from Square Enix: this time, the RPG specialists are to roll out a social game from its so-called SaGa series, which kicked off back in 1989. The series consists of a total of nine RPGs so far, and Emperors Saga, a new game exclusively...
Last month DeNA and Bandai Namco announced a social gaming joint venture called BDNA, which will be set up on October 3 in Tokyo. To recap, BDNA will be capitalized with 100 million yen (US$1.3 million), 75% owned by Bandai Namco, and led by a mixed team of Bandai Namco and DeNA executives. At the...
GREE announced it will bring one of China’s biggest social games, Hoolai Game‘s Hoolai Three Kingdoms, to its smartphone platform in Japan. The social war strategy game was released in Japan in late 2010, made it to the top spot in the Chinese App Store and occupied the number one slot...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry