Social Gaming
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Gree acquires OpenFeint for $104 million as part of global expansion
Gree, Japan’s social gaming giant, announced today that it has acquired social platform OpenFeint for $104 million USD. OpenFeint ’s social platform for iPhone and Android allows …
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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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For $26 Million: GREE Acquires Mobile Ad Startup Atlantis
M&A-related news are relatively rare in Japan’s startup scene, but today we can report that mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE has acquired Tokyo-based ad exchange service Atlantis for …
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English, Please: Social Gaming Giant GREE Seeks To Hire International Staff
Tokyo-based mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE (22 million users, US$3 billion market cap) seems to intensify its international efforts. As announced by CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka back in June last year, …
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Social Gaming Platform Mobage-town Gets Monthly Price Plan For Virtual Items
Earlier this week, Japanese mobile social gaming juggernaut DeNA added a new pricing plan to its super-popular Mobage-town platform (which currently boasts 22 million users): users can now pay for …
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DeNA (Mobage-town) Shuts Down Social Game "Bandit Nation" On Facebook
Back in May, Japan’s mobile gaming juggernaut DeNA ($3.8 billion market cap at the Tokyo Stock Exchange) took a serious step to bring Mobage-town (its highly successful mobile game community) …
