By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Knights Of The Crystals, sometimes called a social version of Final Fantasy, has made the jump from GREE on feature phones to smartphones, namely GREE for iOS and Android (the title, a social RPG/card game, has also been available in English on Facebook for months now). Square Enix launched the...
Truth be told, I don’t quite understand GREE‘s internationalization strategy, but here we go: the company announced dates and locations for a total of five new offices outside Japan. Here’s the full list: GREE Korea (in Seoul, from October 2011) GREE Singapore (from October 2011)...
Back in March, GREE partnered up with 3D game development tool maker Unity to offer the so-called “Unity Plugin for GREE” to social game developers. In June, GREE followed up with a list of some games running on Unity to be released this summer. And now GREE announced that they will distribute the...
I attended almost every Tokyo Game Show event in recent years, and up until now, makers of social games (or online games in general, for that matter) were almost none present. But times are changing: GREE has announced it will not only take part this year but also occupy 120 units of the space...
It’s no secret anymore that Konami has landed a super hit with Dragon Collection, a fantasy card collection game, on GREE. Launched in September 2010, Dragon Collection is still the No. 1 social game on GREE (followed by two other Konami titles by the way). In fact, Dragon Collection has been...
Last month, I attended an event in San Francisco entitled “Social Networks and Games: Transition from Web to Mobile in Japan and the US” when I spent a few days in California. The event, which was organized by the local office of the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) was very...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry