By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
The arcade game business is way past its prime in Japan, too, but some there are still quite a few arcades and some big name makers keep making machines for them. One of these makers is Konami: the company is planning to launch “BASEBALL HEROES 2011 SHINE STAR”, a so-called...
GREE today announced it has inked a deal with Adobe to bring the new Adobe AIR 3 plugin to social game providers this fall. GREE partners can then “embed the functions provided by the GREE SDK into AIR-based applications”. Through the plugin, developers can also create multi-platform...
Yesterday, TechCrunch Japan reported about a very interesting tie-up in Japan’s Internet and mobile world: GREE is partnering up with NTT, NEC Biglobe, Septeni and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital to launch a fund targeted at early-stage startups. Japan has seen a seed accelerator/incubator bubble...
Asian tech blog Penn Olson (to be more specific, writer Rick Martin) has posted a video interview (please turn on close captioning in English) with Taisei Yoshida, GREE’s senior vice president of media business development. The interview was done during the Tokyo Game Show 2011 that ended a few...
DeNA‘s Kaito Royale isn’t only successful on Mobage, the company’s own platform. It’s also available – and very popular – on Mixi, Japan’s largest real identity social network. In fact, Gamebiz reports that the game hit 6,007,985 users today, at 11am JST...
GREE had one of the biggest booths at this year’s Tokyo Game Show (which ended yesterday), and quite a large space was reserved for third-party titles (GREE only offers nine self-developed games on its platform, after all). From those titles, Konami’s social collectible card game Dragon...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry