OpenFeint for Android
Game Channel, OpenFeint’s app to help promote mobile games in the crowded market, launched yesterday for Android. The app is already available for iOS devices. “We learned a lot about discovery on...
View ArticleGREE releases its first game for western audiences
GREE, the $5.9 billion Japanese mobile gaming company making a big push in international markets, debuted its first-ever title designed by U.S. talent for Western audiences today. Taking the evergreen...
View ArticleGREE acquires mobile developer Funzio
Japanese gaming giant GREE just acquired mid-core, mobile game developer Funzio for $210 million in an all-cash deal that should boost its ability to build games for Western audiences. Funzio is behind...
View ArticleGREE posts profits of $168.8
Mobile games company Gree recorded profits of ¥13.4 billion ($168.6m / £104.5m) for the third quarter ended March 2012, up 186 per cent from ¥4.6 billion for the same period last year. Net sales at the...
View ArticleGREEs mobile social platform goes open beta
Gree’s new self-titled mobile social game platform has launched worldwide as open beta, allowing developers to download and utilize the platform’s APIs and services. The platform, unveiled last year,...
View ArticleGREE partners with 2K to add ‘Civilization and ‘Pirates’ to its network
Gree has partnered with Take-Two subsidiary 2K to add two more notable Western franchises, Sid Meier’s Civilization and Sid Meier’s Pirates!, to its mobile social games network. Tokyo-based Gree has...
View ArticleGree grows North American mobile game revenue by 38% in Q2
The Japanese company is unveiling its North American numbers for the first time today. In the second quarter, it reported revenues of $16.87 million, up 38 percent from the previous quarter of $12.15...
View ArticleGREE to enter Korean market
GREE, a Japan-based mobile social game firm, said Friday that it plans to dive into the Korean market after establishing a game studio in the region this year. Ryotaro Shima, senior vice president at...
View ArticleGREE: “The traditional PC will disappear”
CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka has used his keynote speech at the Tokyo Game Show to highlight some of the changes that will be important to the gaming “The line between PC and mobile has blurred, and that’s a...
View ArticleGree closing down OpenFeint on December 14
This time it’s OpenFeint, the social gaming platform started up way back by Jason Citron and Danielle Cassley, that at one point claimed 25 million users, and then was sold to a Japanese social network...
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