By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
What does GREE CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka think about his company and Japan’s chances of a recovery after the triple disasters that hit this country on March 11? NHK World recently aired an interview with Tanaka (in English), and you can watch it here (sorry, it’s not embeddable). He’s...
First DeNA, now GREE: big G announced (press release in English) they have drastically expand their cloud computing services since the beginning of this month, making it easier for American and Chinese app makers (on GREE) to enter Japan and for their Japanese partner companies to offer games in...
One key factor for the success of the mobile social gaming business model (and for all mobile content, for that matter) in Japan is that consumers over here can pay for products and services through their cell phones so easily. Now GREE has made it even easier to pay for virtual items and avatar...
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...
Last month, CyberAgent subsidiary CyberAgent America has released an iPhone app called FreeAppKing that alerts users whenever certain apps in the App Store become available for free or are discounted or on sale (see here). Now the company has announced that FreeAppKing has hit one million users in...
Given how insanely popular the brand is in Japan, this is not a big surprise: Disney Japan’s mobile social game MyLand, launched just last month, has hit 1 million users on May 30. The cute social theme park simulation is currently racking up 14 users per minute, according to Disney. MyLand...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry