Today's Announcement of DeNA

Today, DeNA holds "Mobage open platform Forum" in Tokyo. They announced the lot there. I enumerate the things which thought important.

• DeNA and Disney Japan released 2 mobile social game this month, and develop a mobile social game of Marvel Comics now.
• Cygames’ social game apps "Rage of Bahamut" tops U.S. top-grossing Android apps on the Google Play.
• GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE's popular game "No more heroes" become the social game in Mobage in July.
• DeNA China concluded a business alliance with China's RenRen.
• Kabam and NIMBLEBIT concluded a alliance with DeNA.

The archive of Ustream is here. Most are Japanese, but ngmoco CEO Neil Young gives a speech in English last.

Funny micro work request

Japanese microwork platform Crowdworks had a funny work request.

"Buy Anpan for me
Budget:10,000 yen
Delivery day: April 21
Please buy Anpan and send to my home. I show the concrete delivery place at the time of item establishment. The purchase price for Anpan, transportation expenses and a fee are included in a budget. I welcome the optional suggestion including milk matching Anpan. The number and the brand choice of Anpan entrust you. Please adhere rigidly to 12:00 from 11:00 a.m. at delivery time."

Anpan is a Japanese sweet bun most commonly filled with red beans(Azuki beans) jam.

via Wiki

The budget for such work contents is 10,000 yen?(about 123USD) It's good work! :) By the way, this item was concluded.

Pigg Life gives the 860,000 dollars for stricken area of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Pigg Life, the farming social game of Japanese popular virtual world Ameba Pigg collected donations more than 70 million yen.

Pigg Life carried out the charity program with Ryuuichi Sakamoto from January to April.
See also:
PiggLife does charity collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto
PiggLife collected 50 million yen or more donation in less than one month
PiggLife collected 8 million yen in February

They sold virtual cedar and manure for charity. 173,322 people joined in this charity program, and 300,359 cedars were planted. The collected donation is spent for the construction of the temporary house of the stricken area.

Disney is active in virtual business in Japan

DeNA and Disney agree to bring mobile social games worldwide the end of last month.
via http://dena.jp/intl/press/press-releases/dena-and-disney-agree-to-bring-mobile-social-games-worldwide/

However, that's nothing new. Walt Disney Japan was always aggressive in virtual worlds and a social game. Disney is popular among not only children but also adults in Japan. Therefore the Walt Disney Japan provided a license for a virtual goods. Ameba Pigg is the one of example.

They started a tie-up quest with Disney in farming game Pigg Life. It is the second in this that they carry out Disney quest(First is here).

We can grow the magical farm products and can cook the Mickey Mouse dishes. When we achieve a quest, we got special virtual goods of Disney.

Japanese Disney fans are lucky :)

Go hentai go! Japan has a porn social game platform

There are some of people who say that Japanese social game market is red ocean. However, this is a true start.

The social game platform specialized in porn "moeG" opened yesterday. The Japanese porn social game platform is the 2nd in this(1st is DMM.com mobile). moeG provides R-18 social games for adult.

Furthermore, it implement the avatar system and the general social network service function. The avatar design is Manga-style, but has much sexual virtual goods. Of course, only people 18 years or older can log in here. We can still use this only in a future phone, but become able to use smartphone soon.

I think that the social game platform may be subdivided. This is the beginning.

See also:
moeG: Japan Gets Yet Another Porn Social Gaming Platform [Social Games]