Japanese social gaming giant GREE (TYO:3632) is announcing today that is is partnering with two big game publishers on titles for its upcoming global platform. The first is Ubisoft (EPA:UBI), who the company will work with to exclusively bring a new Assassin’s Creed title to the upcoming global GREE mobile platform. This is certainly a big-name addition for the company as Assassin’s Creed is one of the best-selling game franchises in the world right now. The game is coming in December in both English and Japanese, with other languages to ...
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Feb 21 2012
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MiniGames: A Review of Sina Weibo’s ‘One and One Story’
In a bid to monetize its user-friendly but financially dragging giant, Sina recently imbued its Weibo microblogging platform with its own currency — the weibi — and games. But are these games actually any good? I dove into a few of them to find out. This is the seventh in a series of reviews of Sina Weibo games. One and One Story is the casual game I wish I'd been playing this whole time instead of slogging my way through all those other dumb games. Put simply, One and One Story rocks. Unfortunately, I have ...
Feb 20 2012
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The GREE Story, Told By Founder and CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka
Dressed casually in sneakers, dark blue jeans, and a simple black outfit, he looked very much like your typical tech geek. Perhaps it was the warm Singapore weather that inspired the casual dress. The young founder of GREE (TYO:3632), Yoshikazu Tanaka, shook my hand, handed me his business card and bowed like any other Japanese professional. I managed a clumsy bow in response, in admiration of his sincere and polite attitude. We had met once before in Beijing last year, but our conversation hadn’t lasted long. Many know that Facebook’s Mark ...
Feb 21 2012
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Daum Mobage is Launched for Android Market in Korea
A partnership that was first announced back in November has formally taken off today, as ‘Daum Mobage’ has been officially launched by Japan’s DeNA (TYO:2432) and Korean web portal Daum (KDQ:035720). As indicated in November, the two companies are targeting 10 million users in the first year of operation in Korea. Like the Mobage platform in general, Daum Mobage has an assortment of free-to-play games for smartphone users, as the platform and gaming apps are now available on the Android Market, with iOS in development. Users will be able to login ...
Feb 20 2012
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China’s Most Popular TV Drama to Be Adapted Into an Online Game
China’s most popular TV serial of all time, the iconic historical costume drama Princess Pearl, will soon get a postmodern twist as it’s reinvented as a computer game. Now at the stage of being drawn and mapped (pictured below), the game will be an online multiplayer title developed by a small studio called Beijing WuShen Century Network, and will be distributed on 17173.com, the huge gaming portal that was recently acquired by Changyou (NASDAQ:CYOU). Princess Pearl, when it was first screened, enjoyed the highest viewership in Chinese television history. Seasons one and ...
Feb 20 2012
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Infinity Blade Cross Comes to Mobage for iOS in Japan
Last year DeNA announced that it would be bringing Infinity Blade to its Mobage platform as a social game in Japan. And today it’s finally here. Officially titled Infinity Blade Cross, the title is a free-to-play iOS Japanese-language game that comes as a collaboration between Epic Games, its studio ChAIR Entertainment, as well as Japan’s iNiS Corporation. Infinity Blade has been wildly successful on iOS so far, as the original version became the fastest growing app back in late 2010 upon its initial release, with $10 million in revenue in ...
Feb 20 2012
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Indonesia’s Toge Productions Wants to Grow Like a Bean Sprout
Toge Productions is a game developer studio in Indonesia which has produced several games such as Necronator (see trailer at the bottom) and Planetary Conflict. It has won several awards to date. We spoke with Kris Antoni Hadiputra, the co-founder and director of Toge Productions. 1. When was Toge Productions started, and how exactly was it founded? Toge Productions was founded by Sudarmin Then and Kris Antoni. We actually started as a student project team back in late 2007 when we were completing our bachelor degree in Murdoch University, ...
Feb 17 2012
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Shanda Games President Resigns, Goes Back to the Startup Life
Shanda Games (NASDAQ:GAME), China’s second-largest online gaming company, has lost its president, ‘Tony’ Ling Hai (pictured right), who has resigned from the company. Mr. Ling has done so in order to go back to the entrepreneurial life to work on his own gaming and social media startup. He had been president of Shanda’s gaming division since 2008, and had joined the parent company Shanda Interactive (NASDAQ:SNDA) way back in 2003, and was at one time the VP there. It’s a big boost to the entrepreneurial scene in China, bringing a very experienced ...
Feb 17 2012
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mig33 Eyes the Next Billion, Announces Partnership with 12 Asian Handset Brands
Exclusive --- While the growing smartphone market tends to get the most ink in recent years, its important to note that emerging markets represent an enormous opportunity for mobile companies as well. Thus far, Singapore-based mobile social network mig33 has been at the fore of capitalizing on that market, and today it solidified its claim emphatically. The company is informing us that it has signed agreements for its Android and Java mobile apps to be pre-installed on 12 Asian handset brands in India and Indonesia, which are listed below. table.tableizer-table ...
Feb 17 2012
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Asian Game Devs, I’m Begging You: No More Three Kingdoms
Browsing the news this morning, I spotted a rumor that Netease may be poised to launch a DOTA-style game of its own next month. DOTA is very popular here, and a domestic take on it could be interesting. Then I read the second half of the headline: "...it may be called Heroes of the Three Kingdoms." Oh. Excitement deleted. The Three Kingdoms is actually a historical period of Chinese history, but games about it are generally based on the book Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of the four great classics ...
Feb 16 2012
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The Old Republic Launches in Hong Kong and Singapore on March 1
The Old Republic, Bioware's latest MMO and the best recent shot at World of Warcraft's crown, is coming to Asia. Specifically, the game will launch March 1 in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. Through digital download, some gamers in those regions may have purchased the game already and begun playing it on American or European servers, but Bioware says those players will have "a limited-time opportunity to migrate their characters from their current servers to Asia Pacific servers after the launch on March 1st." Previously on Penn Olson, we ...
Feb 15 2012
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GREE Announces Partnerships with Chinese and Korean Game Developers
Japanese mobile gaming company GREE (TYO:3632) has today announced multiple partnerships with leading social/mobile game developers in Korea and Greater China. The partnerships will result in 12 new iOS and Android titles coming to the new GREE platform when it launches later this year, we’re told between April and June. Among the most prominent of these titles on the way is Punchbox’s Fishing Joy which recently celebrated its 30 millionth download just last month . The complete list of companies and games coming to the new GREE platform are listed ...
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