As I wrote yesterday on Yahoo! Japan-Gree’s business tie-up announcement. The new Yahooo! Japan board seems to be really good on diplomacy, timing two social game giants Gree and (DeNA’s) Mobage.
Today, DeNA announced a business collaboration expansion with Yahoo! Japan, which is similar with the Gree’s one on November 8th.
TOKYO – November 9, 2012 – DeNA Co., Ltd. (TSE: 2432) and Yahoo Japan Corporation (Yahoo! JAPAN, TSE: 4689) today announced that they have agreed to expand their existing business alliance for PC-based social games in Japan to include offerings for smartphones and other smart devices.
Through strengthening their alliance, DeNA and Yahoo! JAPAN will expand the range of their collaboration from PCs to smartphones and tablets, thereby responding to the rapid spread of smart devices in Japan. In addition, the companies plan to interconnect user IDs and loyalty point systems of their respective services on smartphones to explore further opportunities.
Yahoo! Mobage, the PC-based social game platform jointly operated by DeNA and Yahoo! JAPAN, had its two year anniversary on October 7, 2012. Yahoo! Mobage has grown into one of Japan’s largest PC-based social game platforms with more than 9 million registered users. The Yahoo! Mobage service is directly accessible from Yahoo! JAPAN, which currently has over 26 million active user IDs. The companies are also planning to continue their collaboration for Yahoo! Mobage, including joint development of PC games.
Will the next one be the rising Line? Or struggling Mixi to try to get favor from Yahoo! Japan to survive?
Yahoo! Japan and Gree just (after the market close) announced [J] that they have made a deal of “comprehensive business ties”.
They are to discuss on co-development of social games, as well as establishment of company to promote it. They are also talking to set up an joint-investment company for digital video contents, and an entertainment joint-business, joint-CSR and engineers/creators development assistance activities.
Yahoo! Japan has been running Yahoo! Mobage, PC version of social game networking Mobage, with DeNA. Now Japan’s Internet giant two-timing with Japan’s top 2 social gaming platforms.
A comic series of GREE’s in-house social game “Tanken Dorirando” (Explore Dori-Land) has begun for Shueisha’s monthly comic magazine JumpSQ. (Square) [J] as of August 4th.
“Tanken Dorirando” is a popular social game developed and managed by GREE from 2008. It consists of adventuring through a series of dungeons, defeating monsters and getting treasure, and from last month it begain to air as a TV animation. [J] This time the comic series is a comicalization of the anime version of “Tanken Dorirando,” but it will include episodes not presented in the game or the anime.
Jump SQ. (Square) September 2012 issue [Magazine] [J]
TV Anime “Tanken Dorirando” Theme Song “Together” [J]
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Ambition [J] has released the new social game “Ixa Kiss” (Battle Kiss).
“Ixa Kiss” is a card battle style social game in which the player becomes a shogun and summons beautiful girl commanders, and through repeated training builds up their strongest deck, aiming for unification in troubled times. By the “Advance to Battle” part, you use up hit points and get experience points and bells, military commander and family crest fragements. When you complete every “Advance to Battle” part for each story, a boss comes out, and by defeating the boss, it’s possible to advance to the next tale. Also with the “Training” part, you use bells acquired from the “Advance to Battle” part, and by forging it’s possible to strengthen cards by combining two commander cards together. Furthermore apart from common training there is “Love Training”, and with this the commanders fall in love with the player, making abilities change along with the card visuals. You can have “Love Training” with all the commanders, so you can build up your very own special deck made up of chosen commanders in love status. What’s more, with the “Duel” part, you can challenge other shoguns to a duel. Likewise there are times when you will be challenged to a duel by other shoguns, and you can also snatch bells to use for training and family crest fragments from the enemy if you win the duel. Rare commanders can be obtained when you collect all 6 kinds of family crests in a series.
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