El Shaddai – The Latest Japanese Internet Meme

El Shaddai – Ascension of the Metatron – [J] is a Playstation3/Xbox360 action game. The game having the Hebraic name of God is planned to be released in 2011 so at this point there are only an official site and few demo movies. However, this uncompleted game has been causing huge buzz on Japanese web.… Continue reading El Shaddai – The Latest Japanese Internet Meme

LovePlus Followers Assaulting Cellphone, Gree And Mobage Town

Virtual Dating Game LovePlus on Nintendo DS was a smash hit, let Konami themselves publish a sequel LovePlus+(Love Plus Plus) [J] (feature limited), iPhone version and coming arcade version. Two gigantic social gaming networks, Gree and Mobage Town, who have been adding new games every day, of course ride on this trend. On the same… Continue reading LovePlus Followers Assaulting Cellphone, Gree And Mobage Town

SEO Of Love – Japanese Song and Game On SEO

“Koi no SEO”(SEO of Love) is a Japanese song by Kyoto-based SEO company Web Rider Inc.. Of course, this SEO means “Search Engine Optimization”. “Today I got my page ranked up, farewell to scroll-down”, “Now I noticed that tangled links. The important thing is to optimize our hearts.”, “Rhythm of Love is Algorithm” They also… Continue reading SEO Of Love – Japanese Song and Game On SEO

Naisyoku – Japanese Mobile Social Game Leads You To Be… Menial Labor

Naisyoku (Moonlight Job) is a new social game by Acquire Corp. for DeNA’s mobile social networking service Mobage Town. The Japanese word Naisyoku is not so positive. It literally means “working at home” but the word is often used to refer ultra menial labors done by low-income people who are unable to take regular jobs.… Continue reading Naisyoku – Japanese Mobile Social Game Leads You To Be… Menial Labor

Dot War – Command Your Twitter Icon Battalion

Dot War is a Flash-based strategy game with thousands of generated units from your, your friends’ or random Twitter icons. On the start menu, you may choose “single scenario”, “manual match-up” or “automatic VS mode”. You may manipulate your troops by mouse, or in the automatic mode, your setting two icons fight in auto-play. And… Continue reading Dot War – Command Your Twitter Icon Battalion

DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad

DeNA, which runs one of big three Japanese social networking Mobage-Town, today announced and immediately launched MiniNation and its games, their popular social games and its basement community in English on iPhone/iPad for oversea users. The games and MiniNation are only available “outside of Japan”. So it is not for their royal Japanese users but… Continue reading DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad

Unfaithful Partner Inquisition Cellphone Game

“Uwaki Game@Evidence” (Uwaki = love affair) by IDAC [J] is a paid Japanese cellphone game, on which you track down your virtual boyfriends’ love affair to break up peacefully. In the game, you are supposed to snoop around places where your boyfriend visits, such like his home and office, and seek evidences like long hair… Continue reading Unfaithful Partner Inquisition Cellphone Game

Shoryuken! Livedoor Introduces World First Joystick Notation For Wiki

Livedoor Wiki has added a new notation [J] for gamers who want to share the game’s tips and tricks. If you write like this, &pad(ps3){6,2,3,plus,shikaku} then it will be displayed as this, For convenience, a game command editor is provided so you may press those buttons to generate notations like above. (all screenshots are from… Continue reading Shoryuken! Livedoor Introduces World First Joystick Notation For Wiki

Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone

Following to one of the Big 3 social networking service Mixi’s clone Mixi Voice, which made Evan Williams “unpleasant”, another successful, probably now most vital among three, social networking Gree enters into microblog service (registration required for all Gree pages besides the top login page). As once defeated a battle against Mixi on PC web,… Continue reading Mobile Giant Gree Remodelled Its Unpopular PC Site With Twitter Clone

Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame

Hatena, known by a million geekiest loyal users and the most popular social bookmarks service in Japanese [J], announced that their joint project with console game giant Nintendo “Flipnote Hatena” launches in North America on 12th, in Europe on 14th August (both in local time). Flipnote Hatena is a CGM service on where users draw… Continue reading Flipnote Hatena Strikes Back To USA, Plus Europe Assisted By Nintendo Fame