By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Both GREE and DeNA are adding games to their platforms on a daily basis, but almost all of these titles are either feature phone exclusive or released for use on those handsets first. Consequently, GREE and Mobage on smartphones currently have just a few dozens games on offer – on feature...
GREE has announced yet another port of a hit game from a major Japanese console game maker: this time, it’s Square Enix, which started offering Chaos Rings Lite on GREE for the iPhone. The RPG was released as a standalone app on the iPhone last year and reached the No. 1 position in a total...
Bloomberg posted a pretty weird video report on GREE on their website today. The report makes it look like the reporter had an interview with GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka, but Tanaka himself can be seen speaking in the report for only 10 seconds or so. The main bullet point here is that GREE...
GREE today announced they have inked a deal with Korean gaming company COM2US to release Homerun Battle 3D on GREE for smartphones. Next month, GREE will release the baseball game as a native app for GREE on the iPhone (it became available on the Android Market today). What’s interesting is...
“Persona 3 Social”, the first social game in the famous RPG series Persona, was released back in August 2010 for Mobage, before publisher Index started offering the title on GREE for feature phones and Yahoo Mobage. And now Index released the game for GREE on smartphones (Persona 3...
Yet another video game is going social: For Japanese feature phones, Sega actually rolled out the GREE version of Ryuu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), a famous action-adventure series, back in February. And today GREE finally announced the iPhone version of Yakuza, which can be started directly from the iPhone...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry