By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
TechCrunch today has an article on a newly set up (and pretty spectacular) fund that will support early-stage Android developers. The so-called A-Fund is worth $100 million and aims at the Asian market in particular. GREE is a part of it, as is KDDI and Tencent, but the fund is actually being led...
Announced last month, available today: GREE finally released Tecmo Koei’s 100 Man Shin Sangoku Musou, a social game that mixes action with tactical elements. The title is a standalone/original game, but GREE says if owners of the PS3 version use a serial to be found inside the game’s...
Nikkei Trendy Net posted a pretty interesting 7-page interview with GREE‘s CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka earlier this week (the headline says that social games could become Japan’s next export hit). Here’s a rough summary of what he said in English (the interview is in Japanese only, of...
My personal favorite game series of all time, survival horror action legend Resident Evil (Biohazard in Japan), is getting a social treatment on GREE. Maker Capcom today announced the following details: Title: Biohazard Outbreak Survive Genre: Social Survival Horror Release: June 2011 Platform:...
It’s a hit social game on GREE, and now CyberAgent has announced that COORDE MANIA+ has been ported over to Mixi. In the game, players take on the role of a “fashion coordinator” (essentially a stylist) and dress up avatars with virtual items and accessories (see screenshots...
Here are just a few key points (there is a lot more): Internationalization: As even the Japanese social gaming market is limited, both DeNA and GREE have to internationalize quickly. DeNA has decided to take the M&A route, as can be clearly seen by them acquiring ngmoco for $400 million plus a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry