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GREE has rolled out a native application for Monster Planet, its hit monster breeding game, for iOS. The game is basically the same as the feature phone version, but MonPla on the iPhone looks just much, much better. The title is only available in the Japanese App Store (download) at this point...

What does GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka think about his company and Japan’s chances of a recovery after the triple disasters that hit this country on March 11? NHK World recently aired an interview with Tanaka (in English), and you can watch it here (sorry, it’s not embeddable). He’s...

First DeNA, now GREE: big G announced (press release in English) they have drastically expand their cloud computing services since the beginning of this month, making it easier for American and Chinese app makers (on GREE) to enter Japan and for their Japanese partner companies to offer games in...

One key factor for the success of the mobile social gaming business model (and for all mobile content, for that matter) in Japan is that consumers over here can pay for products and services through their cell phones so easily. Now GREE has made it even easier to pay for virtual items and avatar...

Granted, this isn’t exactly a social game, but the title is important enough for GREE to issue a separate press release: “Hourface for GREE” is the GREE version of popular iPhone photo app Hourface. Just like that app, Hourface for GREE visualizes how the user’s face may...

GREE has announced it invested in video and social game maker HAND, which has developed a number of games published by major companies in Japan in recent years. Games developed include various Kingdom Hearts titles for the DS (published by Square Enix)or Puyo Puyo 7 for Wii and PSP (published by...