By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry
No doubt, CyberAgent’s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is a hit: the company today announced that Piggu now counts a whopping 6 million members in Japan. CyberAgent also says it pulls in 600 million yen in revenue ($7.2 million) per month from Ameba Piggu – through...
CyberAgent‘s virtual world Ameba Pigg (Ameba Pico outside Japan) is continuing to grow. According to a presentation the company gave during CEDEC 2011, the number of users currently stands at a whopping 8.5 million. That’s up from just 6 million users at the end of January this year...
CyberAgent‘s Ameba platform is becoming more and more popular. In their most recent financial report, the company has released some pretty interesting stats on how the blogging/social networking service grew over the last months in Japan. Monthly page views hit 36 billion in March –...
CyberAgent released its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2012 in English, and in a nutshell, things are looking very good for the Ameba operator. The company summarizes its financial performance in that time frame as follows: Net sales reached 32,146 million yen (up 11.7% from the...
CyberAgent has announced that Ameba, its social networking and blogging platform, hit 20 million users across all related services at the end of last year. Ameba started off as a blogging platform in September 2004 and added various services like Ameba Pigg or Twitter clone Ameba Now over the years...
CyberAgent announced World Chef today, a social restaurant simulation (in English) on Facebook (it’s actually already available here). The game essentially works like one of the many, many similar restaurant management games out there, but with one catch: it links to another CyberAgent...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry