By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Social games maker Happy Elements has released “My Kingdom” for GREE on the Android market. The game takes place during the Middle Ages, and players take on the role of a king who has to build a kingdom from scratch. As usual, the user has to erect buildings, manage resources, clear...
Tokyo-based (and listed) Vector has simultaneously released a new social game on three platforms today: on Mixi for the PC, Japanese feature phones (Mixi Mobile) and smartphones (Mixi Touch). In Oshaberi Cafe, the player takes on the role of a “daughter of a high-class family” who has...
Tokyo-based social app provider gumi released Happyful Garden on GREE, which is (as the name suggests) a new gardening game (the title’s biggest competitor on the platform is GREE’s self-developed Haconiwa). In the game, the player is supposed to create a garden by planting flowers...
DeNA has added a new title on Mobage to its main proprietary sub-brand for social games, the “Royal” series (the most popular title being Kaitou Royal), today. Story-wise, “Teikoku Royal”, which is designed as a social adventure game, takes place somewhere in the...
GREE posted the financial results for the third quarter of the current fiscal (that ends for GREE on June 30, 2001) on its website. In a nutshell, things are looking very good: net sales per quarter, operating profit, ordinary profit, and net income are up at least by 51% year-on-year. Download...
Mobage may have just added Star Girls to its social games catalog, but last week, an idol raising game also found its way to GREE. Dubbed “Love Kyun! Idol Battle”, the title lets GREE users take on the role of a producer in an artist agency. Players need to choose girls with potential...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry