@Games
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KDDI Buys 5% Stake In GPS Game Provider Colopl For US$6.2 Million
Launched in Japan as early as 2005, “Colopl”, a simulation in which cell phone users manage a virtual colony, is probably one of the earliest geo-aware games out there. The namesake …
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CyberAgent To Start iPhone Social Game Platform GameWave For North America And Global
CyberAgent announced today [J] the upcoming release of their new global iPhone social gaming platform GameWave. GameWave will be an iPhone only platform to be released by this spring as CyberAgent …
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NHN Plans To Flood Japan With Smartphone Games
NHN Japan, the local arm of South Korean web giant NHN and operator of online gaming portal Hangame, is planning to seriously step up game development for smartphones, especially on Android. …
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GTA Chinatown Wars Released On Japanese App Store As More Western Developers Use iPhone to Penetrate Insular Games Market
Yesterday, Rockstar Games released a fully localized version of Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on the Japanese app store as more Western game brands invest in localizing and releasing iPhone apps. …
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White Elephant From The Internet Bubble? Seven-yo Avatar SNS Is Shut Down
A Tokyo-based conglomerate of PC manufacturing and e-commerce retailing, MCJ(Mouse Computer Japan) announced it would shut down the company’s avatar SNS service Cafesta[J] at the end of this …
