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...
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...
“Line Play”, the virtual world NHN Japan released in Japan in November and that integrates with chat app LINE, is now available worldwide. Over here, Line Play can be called a competitor to Ameba Pigg, the popular virtual world operated by CyberAgent on PCs and smartphones. NHN Japan...
Coupons, horoscopes, social networking features, music, movies, maps, shopping, news, comics, games: NHN Japan is ready to throw everything they can think of at LINE‘s current 75 million users. It seems like NHN Japan is trying to see what will stick. And today the company announced it has...
There is already a social gaming platform embedded in Japan’s real-identity social network Mixi (on both the PC and mobile versions), but that’s apparently no reason not to open a second one. Dubbed mixi Park, the new social gaming platform was launched today by Mixi itself and Konami...
LINE, the incredibly popular social networking/messenger app from NHN Japan (the Tokyo-based subsidiary of the Korean web company), is to become a platform for other apps soon. During an industry event in Sapporo, NHN Japan CEO Morikawa said that he will lay out details on how he intends to turn...
By Dr. Serkan Toto – On Japan's Game Industry