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| Jul 27, 2015 | Japan’s Gree In SF Lays Off 120, Buys Game Developer Twiitch, Opens Offices In Berlin And Oz | Yet more consolidation afoot in the gaming business. Gree International, the global arm of the Japanese gaming giant that focuses on social and mobile gaming, is downsizing in San Francisco by cutting 30 percent of jobs, or 120 people, the ... |
| Feb 13, 2015 | Mobile Unicorns Multiply To Hit A Quarter Of A Trillion Dollars | Tim Merel Contributor
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| Nov 3, 2014 | Kabam hires Nick Earl as new head of worldwide studios | Earl has spent the last 13 years at EA, most recently as SVP and general manager of EA Mobile
Kabam is one of the hottest mobile gaming companies out there right now, with some of the most popular titles in the space. So obviously it wants ... |
| Aug 21, 2014 | Game Developer Gumi, A Sega And Line Partner, Enters North America With Four New Studios | The North America digital game market is worth $11.8 billion, but it’s proven tough to navigate for high-profile companies like Candy Crush maker King and Zynga.
But Japanese gaming company gumi is undeterred. It announced today that it wil... |
| Jun 5, 2013 | GREE Ventures Builds Its Southeast Asia Portfolio With Investment In UrbanIndo | GREE Ventures, the investment arm of the mobile gaming giant, has expanded its Southeast Asia portfolio as the lead in Indonesia real-estate startup UrbanIndo‘s preferred Series A funding. Other participants include Japanese-US investment f... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Gree searches for the billion-dollar game from its swanky S.F. headquarters (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mobile gaming world is getting bigger and bigger. Just take a look at Japan’s Gree, which reported revenues of $1.6 billion and has... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | The PlayStation 4 is copying tablets, and I like it | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Above: Lead system architect Mark Cerny announces the design principles for PlayStation 4 at Sony’s kickoff event last week in New York... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Gree and Yahoo Japan invest $2.2M in GxYz social-gaming business | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan’s mobile-social-gaming network Gree and Yahoo Japan are investing $2.2 million in a joint venture to make social games on smartph... |
| Feb 18, 2013 | Gree and Yahoo Japan invest $2.2M in GxYz social-gaming business | Japan’s mobile-social-gaming network Gree and Yahoo Japan are investing $2.2 million in a joint venture to make social games on smartphones.
The GxYz startup will open on March 15, and it will make social-mobile games on smartphone platform... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | GREE purchases developer Pokelabo for $173 million | With Zynga's shrinking position, GREE may be ready to strike in the U.S.
Japanese social gaming company GREE has been on a spending spree the last couple of years, gobbling up game developers in both the U.S. and Japan in an effort to expan... |
| Oct 8, 2012 | 2012 game acquisitions at an all-time high | M&A deals are up, but investments in gaming are down
Game mergers and acquisitions have set a record in the first three quarters of the year, investment bank Digi-Capital said in a report Sunday, already breaking the record set in 2011.... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | Nexon acquires game developer gloops for $468 million | Nexon to use gloops to gain a foothold into growing mobile market
Mobile gaming is hot right now. As console and PC gaming become a thing of the past, and more people play games on their phones and tablets, the space is growing quickly. One... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | GREE purchases yet another U.S. gaming company | Japanese game developer has acquired three U.S. game developers in two years
Updated to reflect comment from GREE
As Zynga loses some of its grip on the U.S. mobile gaming market, other companies are inevitably going to swoop in and try to ... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Gree devours dinosaur mobile-game developer App Ant Studios | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired mobile-game developer App Ant Studios as it continues an ambitious expansion within th... |
| Sep 17, 2012 | Gree devours dinosaur mobile-game developer App Ant Studios | Japanese mobile social network Gree has acquired mobile-game developer App Ant Studios as it continues an ambitious expansion within the U.S.
The acquisition is the first since Gree absorbed mobile social-game maker Funzio for $210 million ... |
| Aug 16, 2012 | Gree grows North American mobile game revenue by 38% in Q2 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Its numbers are still small in the overall mobile game market, and it isn’t making money yet. But Gree‘s North American game business g... |
| Jun 12, 2012 | DeNA’s Rage of Bahamut hits the top of the App Store | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
One of the biggest strategic shifts happening in gaming today is the investment that Japanese mobile social gaming network giants — Gre... |
| Jun 10, 2012 | Japan’s Gree moves mobile gaming into the spotlight at E3 (interview) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan’s Gree put mobile social games into the spotlight at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles by taking over... |
| May 30, 2012 | Mary Meeker: “Mobile Monetization Has More Going For It Than Early Desktop Monetization Had” | We’ve heard a lot about how monetizing mobile content is difficult in the context of Facebook’s recent IPO. A lot of the company’s growth is coming from mobile, after all, but it’s currently very hard to make money of this mobile traffic. A... |
| May 8, 2012 | GREE sales and income tripled in the last year | Latest aquistion Funzio is generating $5 million per month
GREE’s acquisition of Funzio is looking like a smarter decision by the day. As the Japanese government seems set to crack down on gaming practices, GREE's global platform will go a ... |
| May 1, 2012 | Japanese gaming company GREE purchases Funzio | Tokyo-based gaming giant expands its mobile talent and games
In a bid to expand its mobile footprint, Japanese social gaming company GREE announced Tuesday that it has purchased mobile game developer Funzio.
San Francisco-based Funzio was f... |
| Apr 30, 2012 | Crowdstar teams up with Gree for social mobile games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Shifting from Facebook to mobile, Crowdstar is announcing today that it will publish games through Gree‘s worldwide mobile social netwo... |
| Mar 26, 2012 | Gree launches second U.S. social mobile game, Alien Family | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gree made a splash last week with the launch of its first mobile social game for the U.S. market, Zombie Jombie. Now the Japanese compa... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | Grand Cru raises $2M for superhero world: Supernauts | Helsinki-based social gaming company nabs funding, announces first cross-platform title
One mobile, social gaming company, Grand Cru, announced Tuesday that it had raised $2 million in seed funding to build an game called Supernauts.
The mo... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Japan’s Gree launches first U.S. mobile social game, Zombie Jombie | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
It’s just a cute little zombie game, but it could be the start of something big.
Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan with... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title 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 zombie theme that has fueled countless ... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | Japan’s Gree launches first U.S. mobile social game, Zombie Jombie | It’s just a cute little zombie game, but it could be the start of something big.
Gree has become a billion-dollar company in Japan with its mobile social games network. Now it is launching Zombie Jombie, the first title made by Gree’s U.S. ... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | GREE debuts first US-created app: Zombie Jombie | The Japanese social gaming company is spreading its US roots to compete against Zynga
Popular social gaming platform, GREE, announced its first mobile social game, Zombie Jombie, made in the US for a US audience on Thursday. GREE is known f... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Japan’s GREE To Challenge Facebook And Zynga As Global Social Gaming Platform In 2012 | Japanese mobile social gaming giant and Openfeint owner GREE has outlined today its previously announced plan to launch a mobile social gaming network for the global market next year. Details are (relatively) scarce at this point, but the p... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Gumi secures $25.6M for Japanese social gaming | JAFCO, DJB, Nissei support mobile social gaming company with $6M+ revenue monthly
One of the largest social gaming companies in Japan, Gumi, announced Monday that it pocketed 2 billion yen ($25.7 million) in a Series F round of funding from... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | How Zynga Stacks Up To Japan’s Social Gaming Giant, GREE (Hint: It Is Less Profitable) | With Zynga launching its IPO road show today, all eyes are on the social gaming goliath Mark Pincus built on the Web. But the future of social gaming, as with so many things these days, is mobile, where Zynga admits (in its S-1) that it has... |
| Dec 2, 2011 | Yoshikazu Tanaka On How Mobile Social Gaming Will Make GREE The Next Nintendo (TCTV) | One of the fastest growing companies in Japan right now is GREE, a publicly-traded mobile social gaming network with 900 employees and on track to generate $1.7 billion in annual revenues. I interviewed GREE founder and CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka... |
| Nov 21, 2011 | Gree files suit against DeNA citing antitrust law violation | Japanese social games company Gree and telecommunications firm KDDI have filed a joint lawsuit against DeNA, claiming that the social game developer and operator of the Mobage mobile social network is in violation of Japanese antitrust law.... |
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Japanese social games company Gree and telecommun... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | DeNA, GREE: Japan’s Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers | GREE and Mobage are brand names that don’t ring a bell with too many people (yet) as far as markets like the US or Europe are concerned, but these mobile social gaming platforms are hugely successful in Japan. The Tokyo-based companies behi... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | OpenFeint launches Game Channel to discover Android games | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenFeint, the mobile social network division of Japan’s Gree, is announcing a Game Channel today that will help users discover new gam... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Japan Game Awards 2011 At The Tokyo Game Show: Here Are The 10 Winners | The Tokyo Game Show 2011 closed yesterday with not too many spectacular announcements, but several interesting games were on display. Japan’s Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) asked the 222.668 attendees of the show this ... |
| Sep 14, 2011 | OpenFeint replaces founder with new CEO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
OpenFeint‘s co-founder Jason Citron has left the company and is pursuing new opportunities. He will be replaced by Naoki Aoyagi (pictur... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Japanese mobile game companies make their own strategic moves | Japan is seeing a lot of action in the heavy rivalry between the two mobile social game networks DeNA and Gree.
DeNA announced today that it has launched its Mobage app, the Japanese version of Apple’s Apple Store, bringing its mobile socia... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Japanese mobile game companies make their own strategic moves | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japan is seeing a lot of action in the heavy rivalry between the two mobile social game networks DeNA and Gree.
DeNA announced today th... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | DeNA And ngmoco Launch Mobile Social Gaming Platform Mobage Worldwide | Is the world ready for the mobile social gaming revolution? Tokyo-based DeNA, the company that makes $1.3 billion a year just by offering mobile games to Japanese cell phone users and acquired ngmoco for $400 million in December, seems to t... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offeri... |
| Jul 25, 2011 | Venture capitalist Tim Chang describes the white-hot landscape of game investments | The emerging landscape of games is attracting a lot of money, thanks in part to excitement about Zynga’s upcoming initial public offering and some recent acquisitions such as Electronic Arts’ $750 million purchase of PopCap Games. Tim Chang... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Japan’s Gree buys OpenFeint mobile social game platform for $104M | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Japanese mobile social network Gree has purchased mobile social game platform operator OpenFeint for $104 million.
Yes, it’s time to st... |
| Apr 21, 2011 | Japan’s Gree buys OpenFeint mobile social game platform for $104M | Japanese mobile social network Gree has purchased mobile social game platform operator OpenFeint for $104 million.
Yes, it’s time to start yelling “The Japanese are coming. The Japanese are coming.” Gree’s purchase of the Burlingame, Calif.... |
| Apr 13, 2011 | Japan's GREE And Mobile Community mig33 Sign Deal To Bring Social Games To Asia | Big news from Asia’s social games industry today: Japanese mobile social gaming juggernaut GREE and mig33, a mobile community that’s especially popular in Asia, have just announced [PDF] a cooperation with the potential to change the social... |