CyberAgent has announced it started offering its hit game Twinkle Bar on Mixi Touch (the smartphone browser version of Mixi) and Ameba Mobile. The title, a bar management simulation, has racked up 2 million users on Mixi Mobile (Mixi on feature phones) in about a year. On Ameba Mobile (Ameba on...
CyberAgent: Ameba Now Has 13 Million Members
CyberAgent today announced its main Internet platform, Ameba, is now counting a whopping 13 million members. In fact, Ameba hit this mark one month ago, on January 5. One factor driving growth for CyberAgent is the aggressive TV advertising campaign the company started in the fall of last year and...
LINE Play: LINE-Powered Virtual World Goes Global
“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...
LINE Play: NHN Japan Rolls Out LINE-Powered Virtual World
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...
Mixi Park: Konami And Mixi Launch New Mobile Social Gaming Platform [Social Games]
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...
CyberAgent Ready For Third-Party Developers, Announces Game Pipeline For 2012 [Social Games]
CyberAgent had an excellent first financial quarter in fiscal 2012 overall, and in the gaming/Ameba segment in particular. The company also shared plans for its gaming business in the next few months during the earnings call. It seems CyberAgent is determined to push more aggressively into the...