GREE continues to move into China: after striking a deal with Tencent, cooperating with The9 via Openfeint and opening an office in Shanghai, GREE has now announced it invested in Ultizen Games. The company has several offices across China, produces social and other games and offers outsourcing...
Round-Up: GREE-Related News From The Last 2 Weeks [Social Games]
Here’s a quick run-down on GREE-related news I wasn’t able to cover in the last 2 weeks (listed chronologically): August 4, 2011: GREE gets pre-installed on the world’s first Microsoft Windows Mango phone in Japan (article in English) August 4, 2011: GREE announces a user base of...
Round-Up: Financial Reports Of Japanese Social Network And Social Gaming Companies [Social Networks, Social Games]
I spent the last 14 days in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and during that time, these major Japanese social networking/social gaming companies published financial reports (links to all PDFs in English):
CyberAgent: 3Q FY2011
Mixi: 1Q, FY2011
GREE: 4Q, FY2011
DeNA: 1Q, FY2011
With mig33: GREE Launches GREE Platform For Smartphone To Expand To Asia [Social Games]
All companies developing for GREE on smartphones can now theoretically reach out to an additional 50 million customers: mobile community mig33 has today started providing the GREE platform for smartphone to developers (mig33, which is available on feature phones and Android is adopting...
Detailed Interview With GREE CFO Naoki Aoyagi [Social Games]
What is GREE up to in the US, China and other places? GREE’s CFO and CEO of GREE International, Naoki Aoyagi, gave a very interesting (and pretty detailed) interview to US gaming site Gamasutra and answered this and other questions. It’s well worth the read. For example, Aoyagi says...
Bandai Namco To Release Kamen Rider Social Game On GREE [Social Games]
Video game maker Bandai Namco just announced another title to be added to its social games catalog: Kamen Rider Wars, based on the Japanese cult TV series Kamen Rider. The social card game will be released “this summer” exclusively on GREE. In the game, players follow one of the story...