By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
CyberAgent quietly inked deal with Disney Japan to license some characters for Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan), CyberAgent’s wildly successful virtual world. To be more specific, CyberAgent created a “Disney Town” within Ameba Pigg, which looks like this (pictures via...
DeNA and CyberAgent today announced they will jointly launch an ad network specifically for the smartphone versions of Mobage (DeNA’s mobile social game platform) and Ameba (CyberAgent’s blogging and social networking platform). It’s one of the biggest alliances in Japan’s...
Cell phone novels have been big in Japan for years, and GREE now has a dating simulation that’s been jointly developed by Tokyo-based social game maker Mobile Factory and Mahou no i-rando, a major Japanese cell phone novel site. Dubbed Watashi Senzoku, the game is mainly targeted at girls who...
One of Japan’s most famous boy bands, 14-member all-male pop dance group Exile, served as an inspiration for a new social game that just landed on GREE. Dubbed Ex-Samurai Senzoku, the game lets players team up with a samurai (an Exile member in avatar form) and conquer towns in medieval Japan...
I like most of Gameloft’s games, and now the French company has launched a new title on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform from DeNA and Yahoo Japan. As the name suggests, Eco-Farm is a farming simulation. Eco-Farm is the localized version of Green Farm, a social game Gameloft...
CyberAgent‘s gaming subsidiary CyberX today announced that one of its hit social games on Mixi, Hoshizora Bar Town (Starry Sky Bar Town), has made its way to GREE for Japanese feature phones. As the name suggests, Hoshizora Bar Town is a “bar management simulation”: players set up...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry