By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Mobage may have just added Star Girls to its social games catalog, but last week, an idol raising game also found its way to GREE. Dubbed “Love Kyun! Idol Battle”, the title lets GREE users take on the role of a producer in an artist agency. Players need to choose girls with potential...
Japanese toy maker Takara Tomy’s Choro Q toy cars have been used in countless video games so far, and today, Takara Tomy Entamedia unveiled “Combat Choro Q” for GREE. In a nutshell, the title can be described as a social tank battle game with some extra-cute graphics (Combat Choro...
How has the stock of Japan’s major social networking companies, Mixi, GREE, DeNA and CyberAgent, been doing in the past 5 years when compared to the development of the Nikkei? In a nutshell, investors seem to really love the potential social games offer. Here’s the chart for Mixi (IPO...
GREE just announced that it gets another hit console game: Sega has decided to port Puyo Puyo, a classic puzzle to GREE for smartphones, namely as apps for the iPhone and Android. Dubbed “Puyo Puyo Fever Touch for GREE”, the game will contain only mild social elements, for example...
That was quick: GREE, which just acquired California-based mobile gaming platform OpenFeint for $104 million, uses its new property to expand to China. The partner GREE chose is Shanghai-based and NASDAQ-listed gaming company The9. In a nutshell, The9 will be offering a localized version of...
GREE is on a roll today: following the relatively big news that the company invested $25 million in a fund to support early-stage Android developers, this news is even bigger. GREE today acquired iOS and Android social platform OpenFeint for $104 million. Here is GREE’s press release in...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry