By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
GREE today announced it has attracted 171 partner companies for the so-called “GREE Platform for smartphone” so far. These companies are committed to develop social games for GREE’s future Android and iPhone iOS versions. Partners include some pretty big names like Konami...
This is huge news: after rolling out a smartphone web-optimized version of Mobage-town in Japan yesterday and explaining its international plans, DeNA followed up with another big news item today. The company inked a deal with Samsung, under which several months from now all Samsung Android phones...
Japanese site Game Watch has some more information about DeNA’s future plans with Mobage-town. I reported earlier today about the new Mobage-town smartphone version, but there is more: 1) International version Dena will launch the international version of Mobage-town (simply dubbed...
Big news from DeNA today: Since December 15, 2010, Mobage-town users can access the social gaming platform through a special smartphone-optimized site. This version doesn’t only feature Mobage-town’s community elements but also offers games. All Mobage-related information, for example...
DeNA today announced that Tecmo Koei’s hit console game Monster Farm will land on its social gaming platform Mobage-town in January 2011. The social version of the “monster farm simulation” game will be called 1 Million Person Monster Farm. The game series is known as Monster...
Here is the link to a column I wrote on Japan’s social games sector for the journal for the American Chamber Of Commerce in Japan, covering DeNA (Mobagetown), GREE, Zynga Japan and other things. Excerpt: The market valuation of Zynga, the San Francisco-based company behind Farmville and a host of...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry