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Shibuya 109 Fashion Social Game Release


Tokyu Malls Development, run by Butterfly and the fashion building “SHIBUYA 109,” have released “SHIBUYA 109 -StyleCollection-”, a social game for mixi based on “SHIBUYA 109.”

“SHIBUYA 109 -StyleCollection-” is a reality based social game coupled with the actual fashion building as the setting.  Users become the manager of a newly opened “SHIBUYA 109” shop, create their own avatar, challenge against rival shops in customer service battles, and together with their stylish staff aim to be the No. 1 shop.  There is now a campaign to commemorate the launch of this service, where all players who visit the actual “SHIBUYA 109” shop will receive an avatar background featuring the symbolic cylindrical building.  You can get it from the touch panel set up on the eighth floor of the building whenever you visit the shop.  As the first part of the plan to link up with popular shops, the number one selling “CECIL McBEE” is featured.  When you actually visit the “CECIL McBEE” shop on the second floor of “SHIBUYA 109,” you receive a limited staff card (in the game) modeling the staff from the “CECIL McBEE” shop, and furthermore if you introduce friends within the game, you can get an avatar with a popular item sold there.  There will also be a collaboration with the major fan festival “Shibuya109 Girls Festival 2012” for girls held at Shibuya Hikarie on May 12th.  Those attending this event will be presented with a one day limited item in the game.  From now the company will be developing various devices to link up the game with reality with “SHIBUYA 109” as the setting.

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Drecom Releases American iOS App “Monster Arms”

Drecom [J] Has released the new social game application “Monster Arms” for the American App Store.  The support language is English so unfortunately it can’t be downloaded from Japan.

“Monster Arms” is a real time strategy card game where you make an original deck and collect character cards while completing missions.  It has social components such as battling with other players to get treasure, or teaming up to challenge against bosses.

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Paperbooya Releases “Dr. Teeth” For iPhone

Paperbooya has released “Dr. Teeth,” their first title, as a game application for iPhone.  Download is free.

Paperbooya is a joint venture company established [J] by paperboy&co.  [J] and gooya [J] in January of this year with the purpose of developing and managing smartphone game applications.  Their release at this time, “Dr. Teeth,” is a game where you frantically tap on germs thriving in a patient’s mouth and kill them off.  Bust out a combo by connecting fellow germs with a swipe, scrub the teeth with a brush when a germ sticks on, and rinse with mouthwash when inside the mouth is full of germs.  There’s many types of patients and germs, and you can collect as you go.

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Kayac Releases iPhone App For Sharing Leftover Food

Kayac [J] has released “ZangPang,” an iPhone application for sharing leftover food.  Download is free.

“ZangPang” is an app based on the concept “Share with everyone what you can’t finish.”  With this social sharing platform for publicly announcing leftover food, when you unintentionally order too much food at a restaurant, you post information and photos of the leftover food on “ZangPang,” and you can get people who want to eat to come and finish.  Kayac aims to preserve the environment and reduce the chances of wasting food through this application.

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Human Form 3D Input Device QUMARION Ready For Pre-Users

Celsys [J] have begun to recruit the first pre-users of “QUMARION,” [J] a 3DCG data input device.

“QUMARION” is a human shaped device with joints developed from 2009 by the teamwork of  Softether, Celsys, and Pipian, a venture business company launched by The University of Electro-Communications. It can capture the doll’s poses at specific moments by the sensors in its joints, and you can create animation or still images using intuitive 3DCG operation.  Before its product launch, they’re going to carry out an “advance preview” to be able to test QUMARION one step ahead of its release.  Advance preview users will be delivered QUMARION itself along with its related software and actually be able to try out making a piece of work using QUMARION.  Also, pre-users who clear certain conditions will be given the complete QUMARION package as a reward.  From now information about advance preview users will be announced at some point on the official product site.

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