Green romp, [J] who run the network diary service Arrow, [J] have released the social game application for Android Kombu Gacha (Kelp Capsule Toy Machine). [J]
“Kombu Gatcha” is a game app where you turn the kelp capsule machine and get legendary rare kelp cards (The Japanese word for kelp, kombu, is a play on words with the very popular and profitable method of virtual card collection known as kompu gatcha, which has come under legal fire recently; see this link. [E]) When you complete the set of 8 card types such as the special Hidaka Kombu and Rishiri Kombu rare cards, you can receive “Shakunetsu Taitei Kombu Hime” (Red hot great emperor kelp princess), a Super SS unknown usage rare card that can’t be used in any social game. However, inside the caspules there are many whammies included such as “Just a tuna,” and completing the set is quite difficult. Furthermore “secret components” are also included.
Natural Rishiri Kombu cut 700g package [J]
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MoeGame [J] has released the platform “moeG,” specialized in social games designated for full on R-18 content.
Currently, “moeG (MoeGame)” is a next generation 18+ only portal site for enjoying R-18 social games, erotic avatars, and erotic community contents. They now offer titles such as the PC R-18 game title “Night Shift Hospital Ward” and “Pre-Get,” which on its own has amassed 160,000 registered users, and moving forward they plan to offer copyrighted material and original social games. Also moeG’s games adhere to computer software ethics, and as an R-18 designated service, it has become a soundly operated SNS site. Usage is free of charge, and their social games have a basic free charge item rate structure. Although it’s only supported by feature phones, they are currently also developing a smartphone version.
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Social Game Networking Service Gree and Microsoft Japan announced their partnership around promotion of Microsoft’s cloud environment Windows Azure Platform to Gree’s game developer parteners on December 19.
via CNET Japan [J]
Pankaku [J], who have developed the smartphone social SDK “Pankia,” has announced that their number of users has topped 10 million. This means that they have reached 10 million users in the 18 months since the service began.
“Pankia” is a social SDK (software development kit) developed by Pankaku. It supports iOS and Android, and it includes functions such as item management and store, competition matching, ranking, achievement, and linking with Twitter and Facebook. It allows application developers to add all sorts of indispensable functions into their games without incurring any costs.
Currently most Pankia users are from overseas, making it Japan’s highest level scale in terms of overseas smartphone developers. In step with this, the company is officially opening Pankia to the general public. Since its release in June of 2010, they added improvements and offered Pankia restricted only to designated game developers, but now just by registering on Pankia’s site, it’s possible for anyone to use it for development.
From now, they are striving to make even more improvements to the Pankia platform along with reinforcing the smartphone social game development line. The plan is to continue to produce a large number of in house titles as well as entrusted development titles of social games ranking in the overseas market. With a base of know-how which earned them collectively 10 million users worldwide, centered around America, they will continue to support monetization and promotion of Pankia developers’ game titles.
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