GREE And Dentsu Global Promotion At Airports

Gree, [J] in the opening stage of a business partnership with Dentsu Inc., is starting corporate branding advertisements in airports from this April. Both companies have announced [J] their comprehensive business partnership towards global enterprise on March 21st.  In this first stage they will start a corporate branding project with airport advertising, and in Japan… Continue reading GREE And Dentsu Global Promotion At Airports

Mixi Gives Up? Nikkei Business Report CEO Considering To Sell His 55% Ownership

Nikkei Business Online, an online version of business magazine under Nikkei group, on May 15 after the midnight reported that Mixi, one of Japan’s largest social networking service, a direct local competitor of Facebook, is on the table to sell itself. Some social networking competitors, such like Gree and DeNA(who runs Mobage), who had turned… Continue reading Mixi Gives Up? Nikkei Business Report CEO Considering To Sell His 55% Ownership

Six Japanese Social Game Platformer Announced To End Complete Gacha

A communication council of 6 major Japanese social gaming platforms – Gree, DeNA(Mobage), Cyber Agent, Mixi, NHN Japan and Dwango – just released that they would not release new games having Kompu Gacha any more. Kompu Gatcha in current games will be also terminated by the end of this month. From this morning, Klab (major… Continue reading Six Japanese Social Game Platformer Announced To End Complete Gacha

GREE Forms Business Partnership With ICS Mobile, Major App Referral Media

GREE [J] has announced that they have agreed to a business partnership to develop a new global company with ICS Mobile, Inc., who run FreeAppADay.com (FAAD), an industry leader in application referral media. ICS Mobile, a company located in Santa Monica California, manages “FAAD”, a free iOS application introduction media.  “FAAD” has gathered a strong… Continue reading GREE Forms Business Partnership With ICS Mobile, Major App Referral Media

GREE – Written Complaint Against Article Published In “Diamond” Magazine

GREE [J] has announced that they have submitted a written protest concerning an article published in the 2012 March 31st edition of the magazine “Shuukan Diamond” entitled “This Office Is Gravely Concerned For GREE – Social Games Approaching Critical Moment.” According to GREE, the article in question offers to readers the impression that GREE is… Continue reading GREE – Written Complaint Against Article Published In “Diamond” Magazine

Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global

We have covered the Japanese social game industry to some extent on Asiajin over the last years, and I myself do so in more detail on my personal site. In recent months, the two biggest companies in this space, DeNA and GREE, have invested hundreds of millions of US dollars in bringing the concept of… Continue reading Presentation: DeNA And GREE – A Perspective On Japanese Social Games Going Global

GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies

GREE has announced that they will strengthen measures pertaining to actions relating to Real Money Trade (RMT) which is prohibited by the user agreement of the SNS “GREE.”  They will continue, throughout the entire company, to promote such measures as suspending user accounts which violate the user agreement and checking incidents within and outside of… Continue reading GREE Takes Countermeasures Against RMT, In Cooperation With Related Companies

New Social Game For GREE Based On Popular Novel / Anime “The Legend of Galactic Heroes”

Darts Live Games [J] has initiated advance registration the feature phone game for GREE “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu ~ Ginga Teikoku Hen ~” [J] (The Legend of Galactic Heroes ~ Galaxy Empire), a social game with the theme of “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu,” an animation based on Tanaka Yoshiki’s popular novel. The animation “Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu” is… Continue reading New Social Game For GREE Based On Popular Novel / Anime “The Legend of Galactic Heroes”

Gree Ties Up With Dentsu On Global Promotion

Gree announced today [J] that it and Dentsu, Japan’s advertising agency giant, agreed on business cooperation around Gree’s global business. The business partnership includes the worldwide promotion of Gree social networking service, acquiring of contents and start-up investment.

“Transformers For GREE” New Social Game Release

Interspace, [J] Takara Tomy Entamedia, [J] and GREE [J] have released the new social card battle game Transformers for GREE [J] for feature phone from February 10th. “Transformers for GREE” is a card game with graphics that are true to the Transformer [J] world style, and within the game, Transformers from throughout the ages appear… Continue reading “Transformers For GREE” New Social Game Release