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GREE has added another potentially big title to its social game library, a “battle action game” based on Fist Of The North Star, a popular manga. The title is only playable on Japanese feature phones. What’s interesting (apart from the big brand name) is that Fist of the North...

GREE announced that “Pro Yakyuu Dream Nine” will become available on GREE for Japanese feature phones on Friday, a social baseball game (yakyuu means baseball in Japanese). There are social baseball games out there already, but this title, provided by Konami, is the first one carrying a...

GREE today announced it has entered a partnership with famed 3D game development tool maker Unity from San Francisco. Under the deal, GREE has started to offer the so-called “Unity Plugin for GREE” to social game developers providing titles to the platform. The plugin is part of the...

GREE currently boasts around 560 social games coming from 240 third-party developers (which GREE calls “partners”). And 24 of these partners received the so-called GREE Platform Award on Thursday for some of their most successful games. The awards were given away based on such criteria...

GREE organized the so-called GREE Platform Forum earlier this week in Tokyo, an event that gave CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka the chance to motivate existing and potential third-party developers and analyze the current state of affairs and future of his company. During the event, he (and a GREE marketing...

First ads, now books: GREE keeps on diversifying its business. The social game company announced quite a spectacular deal with major publisher Kadokawa, under which it will distribute Kadokawa’s e-books, magazines, manga and other content to users of cell phones. Both companies are trying to...