DeNA renew a logo and enters the social music service

Today, DeNA announced their new logo.

They change a name and the logo of service brands to this sequentially. In addition, ngmoco:) becomes "DeNA San Francisco". According to them, the new logo expresses "Delight" and "Impact the world". These seem to be important keywords of DeNA.

Furthermore, they start social music service "Groovy" for smartphones by the end of this year. According to them, Groovy is the service that combined a social networking function with a music player function. 24 labels have already cooperated with DeNA, and 1 million number or more are offered at the service start.

Japanese Social Game Developer Cygames Has Over 20 Million Users

Japanese game developer Cygames announced that they got more than 20 million registered users.

They say, "We are companies making the contents that are a high quality"

Of course, J-Style card social game "Rage of Bahamut" to have pulled it. Cygames was established as a subsidiary of CyberAgent in May, 2011. And they released Rage of Bahamut in Mobage in September, 2011, and it made a hit immediately. It is still ranked the high rank of Mobage's popularity ranking. And they run not only its Japanese ver. but also English ver., Korean ver. and Chinese ver. The totals of Rage of Bahamut users of the world are more than 10 million. In other words, half of 20 million registered users which they have are Rage of Bahamut users.

They cite cool artwork as the factor of the hit of Rage of Bahamut.

They are not much J-Style. However, they are different from the overseas fantasy art, too. They fuse with both good extract. In addition, they published an art book of Rage of Bahamut in Japan.

Social Networking Service of Buddharupa "butu-comi"

Buddharupa(Statue of Buddhism) regained popularity again recently in Japan. Besides, its lover increases to not only elderly people but also youths.   The figure maker releases cool action-figures of the Statue of Buddhism.

via http://www.kaiyodo.co.jp/revoltech/takeya.html

Staffs of publishing company Kamakura Shinsho opened the Social Networking Service for such Statue of Buddhism lovers "butu-comi".

We can log in in Twitter ID.

Of course this has functions of the general Social Networking Service. Furthermore, we can watch Statue of Buddhism popularity ranking and treasured statue exhibition schedule. There are a lot of precious Statue of Buddhism shown every dozens of years. If the schedules are shared beforehand by many people, it may help tourism industry.

Furthermore, we can buy How-to kit of the sculpture(It is popular to handcraft Statue of Buddhism by oneself in Japan) and statues of famous Buddhist altar shop.

List of Japanese social game platforms

Yesterday, I wrote that Japan had 23 social game platforms now. This post is those list.

FC2 GAME(Start: Unknown)
I don't know when this began. This is a mobile social game platform of FC2 providing various Web Service. A lot of porno social games are included in the games. Of course they are adult only.

d Game(Start: December, 2012)
It's a mobile social game platform of Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo. Only DoCoMo mobile users are available.

Bushimo(Start: December, 2012)
It's a social game platform for smartphones of Japanese Treading card and game maker Bushiroad. All games are released as a native apps.

Mobcast(Start: November, 2012)
This is a mobile social game platform specialized in sports.

Gesoten(Start: July, 2012)
It's a social game platform for PCs which a Japanese GMO group runs.

LINE GAME(Start: July, 2012)
The explanation will be already unnecessary. It's a game platform of Japanese popular messaging apps LINE. Especially, "LINE POP" is  popular, and it broke through 10M download.

Ameba(Start: June, 2012)
Ameba is the social networking service that a CyberAgent runs. It has blog service of the biggest in Japan "Ameblo" and popular virtual world "Ameba Pigg". In addition to them, they began the social game platform for smartphones more.

Yamada Game(Start: June, 2012)
Household appliance general merchandising store Yamada Denki began the offer of the social game for membership site for mobile.

moeG(Start: May, 2012)
This may be Japanese-style service. It is the mobile social game platform of the porn specialty. Furthermore, the porn avatar is available. Of course this is adult only.

TSUTAYA.com kiwi(Start: March, 2012)
Major video rental chain TSUTAYA started the offer of the social game in a membership site for mobile.

BLobby(Start: March, 2012)
This is Japanese-style service, too. It's a mobile social game platform for women, and dating sim and BL games are contributed. What BL? BL is abbreviation of "Boys Love". The details is here.

entag!(Start: January, 2012)
Originally, this was one of the social networking service for mobile. However, they performed a renewal for smartphones and made it open.

DMM(Start: January, 2012)
DMM is VoD service and video rental company, but they are known mainly in porn video. They began a social game platform for mobile, As a matter of course, the most of the game are adult only.

Colopl(Start: August, 2011)
Colopl is first Japanese geolocation mobile social game that started on 2003, but the mobile social game platform started, too. All the games that a third party developed are geolocation mobile social games.

WAKUWAKU Mail(Start: May, 2011)
Originally WAKUWAKU Mail was a dating  messaging service. However, they became the social networking service for mobile and made it open more.

NICONICO Appli(Start: December, 2010)
This is a social game platform for PCs of popular video sharing site NICONICO DOUGA. Users can play a game while watching video.

pixiv mobile(Start: November, 2010)
This is a social game platform of the popular illustration social networking service pixiv mobile ver. This is available only in futurephone for the moment.

Yahoo! Mobage(Start: September, 2010)
This is a social game platform for PCs which Yahoo! Japan and DeNA run jointly.

Hangame(Start: July, 2010)
Hangame was the well-established online game portal site which NHN Japan ran, but transformed myself into a social game platform. By the way, NHN Japan runs LINE GAME, too. How will these be discriminated in future?

aima(Start: July, 2010)
aima is unique service. They bring a social game platform into various sites.

GREE(Start: June, 2010)
The explanation will be already unnecessary. However, unexpectedly CEO Yoshikazu Tanaka said in CEDEC 2009, "GREE does not accept the games of the third party. Because quality control is not possible in ourself." Flexibility is necessary for a leader.

Mobage(Start: January, 2010)
The explanation will be already unnecessary, too. Originally Mobage was game portal site for futurephones. The origin of the title is "Mobile(Mobairu) and Game(Gemu)". However, themselves developed all games before becoming the social game platform.

mixi(Start: April, 2009)
mixi became the social game platform for the first time in Japan. However, unfortunately it was overtaken by Mobage and GREE. Where would they take the wrong way?

There is big characteristic on a Japanese social game platform. Those most support mobile. Furthermore, most of those are specialized in mobile. Only Yahoo! Mobage, NICONICO Appli and Gesoten do not do mobile support at all(But it may be said that Yahoo! Mobage is a PC ver. of Mobage). In Japan, it becomes the common sense to play the social game in mobile. However, it is too a red ocean. Of these, how many will it be the number of to survive 3 years later?

Japanese new social game platform for smartphones "Bushimo"

In Japan, anyone wants to become a platformer. Now, Japan has 23 social game platforms. At last, major phone company NTT DoCoMo opened social game platform for smartphones "d Game" last month.

It is Bushimo to be interesting in them. It's a social game platform for smartphones that Bushiroad started last month.

The user's registration is possible only from a smartphone. Bushimo users can use avatar, chat, friend registration and timeline.

Each social games are released as a native apps.

Renai Replay(Love Replay)

Daishissou! Milky Holmes Turbo(Great Scamper Milky Holmes Turbo)

Milky Daifugou(Grand Millionaire)

Bound Monsters

Bushiroad is known as a company of the trading cards. However interestingly, Bushimo does not have the J-style card social game for the moment. It is Renai Replay now to make a hit most. This broke through 300,000 downloading from release in 10 days.



This is Dating Sim using drawing technology "Live 2D".

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2D or not 2D, that is no problem

Users come back for school days and can simulate ideal love with girl students. The graphic of Live 2D creates a sense of reality such as 3D as 2D anime. Furthermore, characters talk by a full voice. It may resemble LOVEPLUS of KONAMI. However, the touch pen is unnecessary in Renai Replay and the update is carried out frequently and Free to Play. Bushimo makes use of characteristics of the game for smartphones very well.

By the way, Do you want to see the list of 23 Japanese social game platforms? I write it in next post :)