{"id":12399,"date":"2011-01-20T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=12399"},"modified":"2011-01-20T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:06:29","slug":"15-new-games-gree-beefs-up-smartphone-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15-new-games-gree-beefs-up-smartphone-offering\/","title":{"rendered":"15 New Games: GREE Beefs Up Smartphone Offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gree-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1376\" title=\"gree-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/gree-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnother day, another <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/tag\/gree\/\">GREE<\/a>-related news item on Asiajin. Today, it&#8217;s about GREE&#8217;s web site for smartphones for which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gree.co.jp\/news\/press\/2011\/0118_03.html\">new games<\/a> by third-party developers have been added. If you access <a href=\"http:\/\/gree.jp\">GREE<\/a> through an iPhone or Android handset, you&#8217;re now able to play a total of 15 games from twelve different companies (full list in Japanese <a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondtimes.net\/news\/japan\/20110118_greessocialgame.html\">here<\/a>).<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s GREE&#8217;s new smartphone games section (iPhone version):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993117063.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12412\" title=\"o0333050010993117063\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993117063-266x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is the just the first batch of games integrated into GREE&#8217;s web application, including titles from companies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sega.com\">Sega<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gu3.co.jp\/\">gumi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonchidot.com\/en\/\">Tonchidot<\/a>. Needless to say, you can use virtual currency to advance faster in the games.<br \/>\nHere are some pictures showing Tonchidot&#8217;s Augmented Reality-powered LBS RPG <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonchidot.com\/ja\/pressroom\/articles\/20110118\/\">Demon Wars<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Picture-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12419\" title=\"Picture 1\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Picture-1-400x295.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Picture-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12421\" title=\"Picture 2\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Picture-2-400x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993149464.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12414\" title=\"o0333050010993149464\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993149464-266x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993171543.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12416\" title=\"o0333050010993171543\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/o0333050010993171543-266x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAnd for GREE, beefing up the web app is just the first step in the smartphone area. As announced by the company last month, the so-called &#8220;GREE Platform for smartphone&#8221; also includes offering native applications for the iPhone and Android (both of which will be released in the next few weeks).<br \/>\nThe company says it so far attracted about 200 companies, which will roll out games for the smartphone platform in the near future.<br \/>\n<em>Pictures courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/author\/chihok\/\">Chiho Komoriya<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/a-c\/entry-10773456517.html\">blog<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another GREE-related news item on Asiajin. Today, it&#8217;s about GREE&#8217;s web site for smartphones for which new games by third-party developers have been added. If you access GREE through an iPhone or Android handset, you&#8217;re now able to play a total of 15 games from twelve different companies (full list in Japanese here).&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15-new-games-gree-beefs-up-smartphone-offering\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">15 New Games: GREE Beefs Up Smartphone Offering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[1441,2387,3387,3413],"class_list":["post-12399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","tag-gree","tag-mobile-gaming","tag-smartphones","tag-social-games","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}