By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Facebook Japan now has 3.2 million users (3.19 million, to be more exact), if Facebook statistics aggregation service Socialbakers is to be believed. The last time I reported, 17 days ago, that number stood at just over 3 million: In that last report, I speculated about the existence of a glitch...
Mixi today announced it has redesigned Mixi Touch, its mobile site optimized for touch-control smartphones. This isn’t groundbreaking news, but fairly important for Mixi, whose smartphone offering has been growing quickly in recent months. The main change can be seen on the splash page, from...
It took Dwango years to release Nico Nico Douga in English, and after they finally did today, all I can say is that it is hugely disappointing, even for a beta release. Dubbed Nico Nico (Dwango dropped the “Douga”, which is Japanese for movies), the site, in its current form, looks more...
Virtual worlds Ameba Piggu (Ameba Pico) or TinierMe are just two CyberAgent properties boasting a handsome number of users located outside of Japan. The third one is Poupeegirl, an avatar-based “fashion community” mainly targeted at girls. CyberAgent launched Poupeegirl in 2007 before...
Nico Nico Douga is airing even more anime series. Dwango, or to be more precise its subsidiary Niwango, has added four new animes to the “Nico Nico Douga channel”. The new series bring the total number of animes that started airing on the platform this month to 13. Each show has a set...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba is not only Japan’s biggest blogging site with 13 million members, it’s also famous for its “Ameba Geinoujin-Yuumeijin” (“Ameba Talents-Celebrities”) blogging platform, which hit the 9,000 user mark in January 2011. And now CyberAgent announced it will turn a...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry