2012-11
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North American Version of Social Game "Nyobunyaga No Yabou" Released As "Samurai Cats"
Koei Tecmo Games [J] has released “Samurai Cats,” an English version of the warring states social simulation game “Nyobunyaga No Yabou” (Nobunaga’s [meow] Ambition), for the global version of Mobage. …
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CyberAgent Releases Photo SNS
CyberAgent [J] has released a smartphone based photo SNS Tomodachi Nenkan [J] (Friend Yearbook), for posting photos of friends’ faces and socializing. “Tomodachi Nenkan” is an SNS for posting and …
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"Hello Kitty World" Game App To Be Released In 48 Countries And Regions
Nifty, Inc. [J] has announced that they will expand and develop “Hello Kitty World,” an iOS game app offered in Taiwan in Japan in collaboration with Sanrio Wave Inc. [J], for 48 more countries and …
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Zynga Japan Retires 3 Social Game Titles
Zynga Japan K. K. [J] has announced that they will terminate service of the three of their social game titles “Mojitomo☆”, “Machitsuku!”, and “Montopia” by December 21st. This is because of the major …
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KDDI And Gijutsu Hyouronsha Hold AR Development Contest
Gijutsu Hyouronsha Inc. [J] and KDDI Inc. [J] are hosting the Dai Nikai Sacchi Ningen Contest [J] (Second Time Sense Human Contest), a contest for AR (Augmented Reality) applications developed using …
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Social Gamers' Social Media Use in Japan
Not a long time ago we conducted a large scale study by surveying 1000 online panel members about their social media usage habits. Although I personally have some doubts about online panels, as the …
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Sony Features Dancing Headphone Girls From All Japan's 47-Prefecture
Sony Headphone’s official new promotion in Japan is movies on its YouTube channel. Not sounds new? But 47 girls from each prefecture dancing with the headphone at tourist places and/or with …