Today took place the official presentation of the new social games company BDNA, a joint venture between Bandai Namco (75%) and DeNA (25%). As they announced in the previous report, the capital of the company will be 100M yen (1.3M$), starting operations next October 1st. Shin Unozawa, COO & Vice President of Bandai Namco Holdings, will be… Continue reading [TGS2011] BDNA Officially Presented
Month: September 2011
Car Town Hits Japan! On Mobage For Feature Phone
Cie Games Japan [J] has begun to offer feature phone Mobage [J] service for the social game “Car Town.” From September 15th (Thurs.) through September 18th (Sun.) they will also be opening a booth at the “Tokyo Game Show 2011,” held by Makuhari Messe. “Car Town” is a feature phone social game based on Facebook’s PC… Continue reading Car Town Hits Japan! On Mobage For Feature Phone
Mobage And GuruNavi Make Wireless-Touch On Restaurants Into Social Game Items
DeNA and GuruNavi have begun their collaboration plan “GuruNavi NEW Touch Local Recipe ♪,” which links the social game “Bistro World” for Social networking service Mobage [J] with the gourmet information site “GuruNavi.” [J] “Bistro World” is a restaurant management social game where users learn menus from countries around the world and serve meals to… Continue reading Mobage And GuruNavi Make Wireless-Touch On Restaurants Into Social Game Items
Google Japan Launches Minna no Business Online, Free Website Hosting For Small-Mid Business
Minna no Business Online (=business for everyone online) is a newly released web hosting service by Google in Japan, today on September 13 2011. The site is, very different from typical Google web services, not under google domains but have its own jp domain (minbiz.jp), designed with vivid red, like the color which is used… Continue reading Google Japan Launches Minna no Business Online, Free Website Hosting For Small-Mid Business
Moymoypalaboy Everybody Copied By MMD. So WTF Is MMD?
Moymoypalaboy’s Everybody (Backstreet Boys) is a popular user generated movie played about 3 million times on YouTube. Then what is this movie rapidly adding its played count? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-287ehU1U4 From the Japanese title “【MMD】 「顔芸担当」 × 「エアボ兄弟」 でEVERYBODY 【オリジナル】” “[MMD][Kaogei Tantou]x[Eabo Kyodai] de EVERYBODY [Original]”, which shows the left side movie is made by MMD =… Continue reading Moymoypalaboy Everybody Copied By MMD. So WTF Is MMD?
Crypton Offers Hatsune Miku Social Game For Gree Android
Crypton Future Media Company has begun to offer a social game “Hatsune Miku Vocalo×Live!” for the Android version of the GREE, one of the most profitable social gaming networks around the world. The new “Hatsune Miku Vocalo×Live” is for the Android device. The same title is now being offered on GREE for feature phones. The… Continue reading Crypton Offers Hatsune Miku Social Game For Gree Android
DeNA Implements “Kaitou Royal” Campaign At Bic Camera
DeNA [J] in cooperation with a big electronics chain store Bic Camera [J] is implementing their planned campaign for “Kaitou Royal,” a popular social game for “Mobage,” [J] managed by DeNA. The campaign period is for about one month from September 1st (Thursday) to October 2nd (Sunday), and during this period, at all Bic Camera… Continue reading DeNA Implements “Kaitou Royal” Campaign At Bic Camera
KDDI Buys 15% Stake In French AR Company Total Immersion
Japan’s second biggest telecommunications firm KDDI announced [JP] it has acquired an equity stake in French based Total Immersion S.A., an augmented reality (AR) software maker. Business daily The Nikkei says it has learned KDDI paid 100 million yen (US$1.3 million) for a 15% interest in the company. Total Immersion has offices in North America,… Continue reading KDDI Buys 15% Stake In French AR Company Total Immersion
August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Please follow this new Asiajin Mixi page if you have a Mixi account. Continued from (Part 2). Last part of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Dragonslayer Wedding Cake Cut Celemony Mixi Changes Its Logo. A blog Orange wrote [J] that… Continue reading August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Popular 2-Channel Ascii Arts Animated
It has been 12 years since 2-channel serves Japanese net users. The gigantic anonymous bulletin boards are still kept simple without image/movie, all you type is texts. You may post URL of images there, and many 2-channel viewer clients, which many users are now using, extracted to display in the posts for convenience. But still,… Continue reading Popular 2-Channel Ascii Arts Animated