News Flash: Legendary rock band KISS cooperates with SEGA's mobile social game

If I remember correctly, this is the first time that KISS cooperates with a social game. Today, SEGA's subsidiary SEGA Networks announced that rock band KISS cooperates with their game apps for smartphones  "Demon Tribe".

Demon Tribe is one of the luxury apps in game apps of SEGA Networks. It is a Defense of the Ancients(DotA) style game, and players become the agents with ability to transform themself into a daemon and fight against evil daemon army corps with friends. As can be seen in these videos, most of the graphic are full 3D.



Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley appears for this game as a daemons. KISS hold Japan tour this month. So, this may be a tie-up to it. They will announce the followup from now on.

Japanese game company Index which went bankrupt is purchased by SEGA

I wrote it about Japanese game company Index having gone bankrupt.

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This disturbance was finally settled. SEGA obtains all their business by transfer. There was insolvency of approximately 24,500 million yen in Index, but their game business still grew up. So they looking for a sponsor and intended to continue game business. SEGA established new company SEGA Dream and signed on a business transfer with them. Index releases games with SEGA sequentially from now on.

Cool wearable device: Japanese startup Logbar announced ring type device

This is wearable device which is the coolest in Japan now. Japanese startup Logbar announced ring type device "Ring". What kind of device is this? Check this video.


Ring -Shorcut Everything- from Logbar on Vimeo.

This is really cool. Furthermore, it is smaller than glasses type wearable device and is simple. They release this in 2014 and show API for a developer.

[TGS 2013] The indie game that was the coolest in Tokyo Game Show 2013 "TENGAMI"

Indies game area was the coolest in this Tokyo Game Show. Furthermore, TENGAMI was the coolest among them.

TENGAMI is an ambitious adventure game of British indies developer Nyamyam. The characteristic is the beautiful artwork which reproduced feel of a material and pop-up book of a delicate Japanese paper.

In Toyko Game Show, we were able to play the demo version of the sea and the forest.

When we open the book on the writing desk …

The start screen of the game is displayed. What beautiful! pop-up book is completely reproduced in iPad!

In TENGAMI, to advance in the next scene becomes the demystification. A device of pop-up book is hidden in each scene. We fold the scene and open it and move to the next scene. It is a novel experience.

Furthermore, this expresses Japan exactly. Usually, most of games about Japan are strange funnily. They do not understand Japanese culture, and it is not unusual for Japan, China, Korea to be mixed. However, artwork and BGM of TENGAMI are completely cool. Because the development team is constructed by a Japanese and a British8Japanese team in Okinawa). The indies game development beyond the border is still rare in Japan.

TENGAMI is released for iOS, Mac, PC and Wii U. I look forward to the release of this game. Please check this video.

[TGS 2013]Arcade rhythm game that Aomori fights with Hokkaido "Aomo-rhythm"

Visitors do not pay attention there, but overflow in fantastic games of students in the game school area. It's "Aomo-rhythm" of Kanagawa Institute of Technology to have been the strangest in them.

Because it was too original, they became the topic in Twitter, and the booth was prosperous very much.

Aomo-rhythm looks like an usual arcade rhythm game at a glance. However, the concept is individual. This is "Aomori beats up Hokkaido"

Aomori and Hokkaido are prefectures in northern Japan both. However, Hokkaido is much bigger than Aomori. At first, Students devised a game to greatly raise Aomori. Well, this should have become the upbringing game first.

However, a certain student said that peninsulas of Hokkaido and Aomori are like the arm. They are surely characteristic form. The imagination of students spread from there and It finally became the concept that peninsulas fight :D

Beginning of the game, Hokkaido hurl their special products and strike Aomori.

Aomori defends it to rhythm. By the way, BGM of the game is a musical accompaniment of famous summer festival of Aomori "Nebuta".

Hokkaido fights against Aomori intensely. Bone was fitted in peninsulas and worked  smoothly.

Oh! The peninsula of Hokkaido became the fist! :D

However, Aomori won! The area of Hokkaido becomes narrow by the number that we tapped a button to rhythm exactly.

This is developed by Unity. I wish that this becomes the game application for smartphones.