By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
Yahoo Japan just added FashionNavi to its popular Yahoo Shopping site, a similar image search engine that’s supposed to make shopping easier and drive sales. The way it works is similar to Hitachi’s (now shut down) Gazopa: if a user needs to find another item that fits the one they are...
There aren’t too many action games to be found on social gaming platforms, but GREE has Destroy Gunners, a 3D action game for GREE on Android that actually looks pretty good (I myself didn’t have the time to play it yet though). In the game, players control two-legged robots, destroying...
Classic RPG series Ys gets a social make-over: GREE announced a special version, a social RPG called Ys Nexus, for their platform (the game has been jointly developed by Index and Nihon Falcom). Ys Nexus features an original story, meaning it’s not a remake of an existing Ys title (see some...
In April, French gaming giant Gameloft started offering Ecofarm, a farming simulation, on Yahoo Mobage, the PC-based social gaming platform from DeNA and Yahoo Japan. And now they launched the same title, which is available in English on Facebook (as Green Farm), on Mixi for the PC. So far so good...
The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has issued a cease and desist order to DeNA, following claims in December last year that DeNA was breaking the country’s antitrust law. The JFTC states: DeNA forced “Specified Social Game Developers” not to provide the games through “GREE”, by...
GREE has rolled out a native application for Monster Planet, its hit monster breeding game, for iOS. The game is basically the same as the feature phone version, but MonPla on the iPhone looks just much, much better. The title is only available in the Japanese App Store (download) at this point...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry