Zynga's Japanese taste iOS game application

Zynga releases a lot of mobile game recently. They released new game application for iOS today.

This is "MONTOPIA". Frankly speaking, it is a game such as Pokemon.

Users can gather monsters, venturing various places. The kinds of monsters are more than 200.

Zynga Japan supervised the design of this. Now, it is given precedence only in Japan, but will be given global later.

A Japanese prominent old gamer says "I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released"

YuZo Kayama of the Japanese musician / actor is 75 years old, but he is a heavy gamer. He loves the Capcom's game "Resident Evil" series very much. He appeared in a program of local radio FM Okayama and said.

"I cancel all work if Resident Evil6 is released. Movies, Novels and games are entertainment. However, Games can make a story with myself. Dead or alive of a character are according to myself. Games has infinite possibilities. I can't play games in the interval of work. I have to secure time firmly and have to play a game from the front."

By the way, he is a friend with another Japanese old gamer Shiro Suzuki.

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Awesome 72 years old gamer
Japanese 72years old gamer said, "Game has the effect to reduce crime"

They talked about Resident Evil series in the end of last month.
http://japan.gamespot.com/extra/biohazard_201201/35013022/

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http://blog.livedoor.jp/himasoku123/archives/51699003.html

Let's play on a bald men's head

Japanese application developer Cyder released funny iOS application. It's “Hage-mu” ("Hage" means bald head in Japanese. Hage(bald) and game = Hage-mu).

hage-mu is game apps that gliding on the bald heads of guys from around the world. this is simple but difficult. we balance a snowboard on top of a bald men’s head and try not to slip off.

It’s supported on Game Center and you can share your score with other users.

In this sequel “Hage-mu 2”, we get the flag stuck on bald head.

Refuge administration game

Japanese politicians are really stupid. However, the citizen knows it enough. So, they control ourselves in emergency. 1 year passes from East Japan big earthquake disaster soon. The trial to simulate the administration of the refuge using a card game is carried out now in Tohoku.

Players learn a way of the administration of the refuge through playing a card game. The setting of a game is "an elementary school of the stricken area where all lifelines were severed". The player must take the refugee of various kind to the elementary school which became the refuge quickly. Furthermore, they must keep community after refuge.

How about commercializing this card game?

PiggLife collected 50 million yen or more donation in less than one month

I wrote about East Japan big earthquake disaster charity of PiggLife last month.
See also: PiggLife does charity collaboration with Ryuichi Sakamoto
It achieves great result now. The operator of PiggLife announced the middle of the donation amount of money today. Operator of PiggLife Cyber Agent announced the progress in the middle of the amount of donation. They collected donations of 54,027,140yen(696724.33 USD) during a January 11-31.

The donations were done by virtual goods. PiggLife users put a lot of virtual cedars on a garden. This project continues until the end of March.