By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
In April, French gaming giant Gameloft started offering Ecofarm, a farming simulation, on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform from DeNA and Yahoo Japan. And now they launched the same title, which is available in English on Facebook (as Green Farm), on Mixi for the PC. So far so good...
Back in January, Mixi announced they will co-launch a social gaming venture with CyberAgent, with both companies having followed up one month later with some additional details. Fast forward to June, and Grenge has just rolled out their first social game. Mogu Mogu Restaurant, a restaurant...
In many way, social networking in Japan is very much different from social networking in other regions. Mixi, Japan’s largest real identity social network, always had one distinct function: ashi ato, the ability to check which other Mixi user visited one’s profile at which time. This...
Update, June 23, 2011: See the results of the Mixi campaign summarized here. Japan’s largest real-identity social network Mixi has started distributing social banner ads, in cooperation with Nike Japan. Concept-wise, the so-called NikeiD campaign is very similar to the “mixi Xmas...
Sony Music Network Japan released Recotsuku on Mixi, a social game that lets player take on the role of a music label boss. The aim is to bring the company the company by finding and negotiating with bands, selling their songs, setting up record stores, etc. Other Mixi members can help in the...
Japan’s biggest social network Mixi started offering the official Mixi app for Android in December last year. And today the company announced the release of the Mixi Android SDK kit for developers. The SDK is supposed to make it easier for social app providers to create Android apps using the...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry