Colopl [J], which also runs the location information service platform “Colopula,” has released the new game “Go Tochi Kitty Collection” (Local Kitty Collection). In this game, a location game offered by Imagineer [J] and licensed by Sanrio [J] as well as ASunARosyA [J], while traveling all over Japan with Hello Kitty, you collect various place’s… Continue reading Colopl Releases Collectable “Local Hello Kitty” Location Game
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CyberAgent America Releases Second Smartphone Game, “Coin Pusher Mafia”
Cyber Agent’s American subsidiary company CyberAgent America, Inc. has released the game application “Coin Pusher Mafia” for iPhone. Download is free. “Coin Pusher Mafia” is Cyber Agent’s second released smartphone game application title. It’s a combination between a mafia game and a slot machine game, and along with the previously released “Zombie Restaurant,” [J] it… Continue reading CyberAgent America Releases Second Smartphone Game, “Coin Pusher Mafia”
Tonchidot’s Face Recognition App “Smile Fever” Supported In English And Korean
Tonchidot has released the iPhone application “Smile Fever” v1.0.2 which now supports the English and Korean languages. “Smile Fever” is their first free iPhone application. Thanks to facial recognition technology, it judges and ranks everyone’s charming “Smile Face” and gets the party going. By using iPhone4’s front camera function it judges your smile and converts… Continue reading Tonchidot’s Face Recognition App “Smile Fever” Supported In English And Korean
Ameba Pigg Localizes “Kids Country” To China On Kaixin001
Cyber Agent [J] has announced that they will offer “Kids Country” (Shaorengo)” [C] a localized Chinese version of their 2D virtual space “Ameba Pigg” for China’s biggest social networking service, “Kaixin001”. [C] “Kaixin001” is a popular local Chinese social networks which boasts over 100 million users. “Kids Country,” based on Ameba… Continue reading Ameba Pigg Localizes “Kids Country” To China On Kaixin001
Ameba Pigg In Collaboration With GUCCI! Official Goods Sold
Cyber Agent’s [J] 2D virtual space “Ameba Pigg” has begun a collaboration with fashion brand GUCCI. Presently within Ameba Pigg’s “Ginza Main Street Area,” GUCCI has opened a virtual shop. This collaboration’s planned period is limited until GUCCI’s 90th anniversary commemoration on October 17th. During this period, actual GUCCI items that have been sold until… Continue reading Ameba Pigg In Collaboration With GUCCI! Official Goods Sold
Japanese Castle-town Building Game Shirotsuku Moves To Trading Cards
From August 2nd, Cave is beginning sales of “Shirotsuku Collection Card Shiro CA Part I” [J] (Shiro CA) as part of their castle town development social game “Shirostuku,” at Don Quijote, major family restaurants such as Gusto and 3F, and other major chains. “Shiro CA,” coupled with “Shirotsuku” trading cards, contain a serial ID number.… Continue reading Japanese Castle-town Building Game Shirotsuku Moves To Trading Cards
What If Your Girlfriend Were a Foreigner? CyberAgent’s English-Study App
CyberAgent, [J] which manages “Ameba,” has begun to offer the second installation of their English conversation study application series for iPhone, “Moshi Kareshi Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” (If Your Boyfriend was a Foreigner English Conversation), “Moshi Kanojo Ga Gaikokujin Dattara Eikaiwa” [J] (If your girlfriend was a foreigner English Conversation). Although the price is set… Continue reading What If Your Girlfriend Were a Foreigner? CyberAgent’s English-Study App
The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive on Google Earth “Hiroshima Archive”
August 6 was a day when the atomic bomb was dropped to Hiroshima by the U.S. Army. Hidenori Watanave Laboratory at Tokyo Metropolitan University launched pluralistic digital archive “The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive”. http://hiroshima.mapping.jp/ (English and Japanese) “The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive” is a pluralistic digital archive using Google Earth to display on it the… Continue reading The Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Archive on Google Earth “Hiroshima Archive”
Social Platform GREE Expands To 130 Million Users
GREE [J] has announced that their mobile device social platform in August has exceeded 130 million users worldwide, achieving 107 million users outside of Japan. The number of GREE’s users is a total of the Japanese “GREE,” combined with the social game platform primarily developed for America, Europe, and China, “OpenFeint,” whose user number has… Continue reading Social Platform GREE Expands To 130 Million Users
Allez Cuisine! “Iron Chef For GREE New Challengers” – Kitchen Stadium Goes Social
Fuji Television with GREE [J] and Synphonie have announced that they will offer the GREE feature phone version of the popular TV show “Ryouri no Tetsujin (Iron Chef)” as a social game, “Iron Chef for GREE New Challengers.” [J] Fuji Television with GREE and Synphonie are jointly planning the design for “Iron Chef for GREE… Continue reading Allez Cuisine! “Iron Chef For GREE New Challengers” – Kitchen Stadium Goes Social