We have covered the Japanese social game industry to some extent on Asiajin over the last years, and I myself do so in more detail on my personal site. In recent months, the two biggest companies in this space, DeNA and GREE, have invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in bringing the concept of… Continue reading Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global
Day: March 27, 2012
Google Japan Runs AKB48 Commercial For Galaxy Nexus, Which Is Almost Free On Shop
Google is airing a commercial of its Android reference handset Galaxy Nexus, with AKB48, who is the top girls idol group, who also cooperates on Google+ promotion in Japanese. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZW2R9fPp-o The commercial song is sung by the selected members of AKB48 for Google+, called “Gugutasu Senbatsu”(Gugu = abbrev of Google, tasu=to add, senbatsu=selection) Gugutasu is… Continue reading Google Japan Runs AKB48 Commercial For Galaxy Nexus, Which Is Almost Free On Shop
GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies
GREE has announced that they will strengthen measures pertaining to actions relating to Real Money Trade (RMT) which is prohibited by the user agreement of the SNS “GREE.” They will continue, throughout the entire company, to promote such measures as suspending user accounts which violate the user agreement and checking incidents within and outside of… Continue reading GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies